Alexander van der Haven

Professor, Study of Religion

Department of Archaeology, History, Cultural Studies and Religion

E-mailalexander.haven@uib.no
Phone+47 55 58 86 00
Visitor Address
Øysteins gate 3

5007 Bergen

Room
305
Postal Address
Postboks 7805

5020 Bergen

Publications
Current projects

Selected publications

“A Jewish Qur’an: An Eighteenth-Century Hebrew Qur’an Translation in its Indian Context. Religions 14 no. 11 (2023): 1368. 30 pp. https://doi.org/10.3390/rel14111368.

“Religious Minorities: Conceptual Perspectives.” With Erica Baffelli and Michael Stausberg. Religious Minorities Online. Berlin/Boston: De Gruyter (2023).

“A Normative Turn in the Study of Religions? Reflections on Richard Miller’s Why Study Religion?” With Ingvild Gilhus, Michael Stausberg, and Christian Bull. Method and Theory in the Study of Religion (published online ahead of print 2023).

“The Seventeenth-Century Vida of the Proselyte Abraham Pelengrino, alias Manoel Cardoso de Macedo: Analysis and Translation.” With Ronnie Perelis. Studia Rosenthaliana: Journal of the History, Culture and Heritage of the Jews in the Netherlands 47 no. 2 (2021): 166-195.

“The End as the Past/Das Ende als Vergangenheit.” Shelley Harten and Gregor H. Lersch, ed. Yael Bartana. The Book of Malka Germania/ Das Buch der Malka Germania. Bochum: DCV Verlag, 2021: 24–29.

“Jews and Christians United: The 1701 Prosecution of Oliger Paulli and his Dutch Printers.” With Jeannine Kunert. Studia Rosenthaliana: Journal of the History, Culture and Heritage of the Jews in the Netherlands 46 no. 1–2 (2020): 71–95.

“An Ashkenazic Halakhic Fragment found in Leiden University Library.” With Yakov Z. Mayer. European Genizah: Newly Discovered Hebrew Binding Fragments in Context. European Genizah Texts and Studies 5. Studies in Jewish History and Culture 63. Ed. Andreas Lehnardt. Leiden/Boston: Brill, 2020: 36–42.

“Eschatology and Conversion in the Sperling Letters.” Jews and Protestants from the Reformation to the Present. Ed. Irene Aue-Ben-David, Aya Elyada, Moshe Sluhovsky, Christian Wiese. Berlin/Boston: De Gruyter, 2020: 49–70.

“The Earliest Footprint of a Messianic Queen: Sarah the Ashkenazi in Amsterdam.” Zutot: Perspectives on Jewish Culture 17 no. 1 (2019): 15–21.

“Jewish-Christianity and the Confessionalization of Amsterdam’s Seventeenth-Century Portuguese Jewish Community.” Cadernos de Estudos Sefarditas 20 (May 2019): 117–143.

שרה האשכנזיה, מלכת השבתאים. Sabbateanism Series (editorial board Prof. Avi Elqayam, Prof. Yehuda Liebes, Prof. Jacob Barnai). Augmented and revised Hebrew edition. Tel-Aviv: Idra Academic Publishers, 2018, second impression 2019.

“Predestination and Toleration: The Dutch Republic’s Single Judicial Persecution of Jews in Theological Context.” Renaissance Quarterly 71 no. 1 (Spring 2018): 165–205.

Religion und Wahnsinn um 1900: Zwischen Pathologisierung und Selbstermächtigung. Religion and Madness Around 1900: Between Pathology and Self-Empowerment. Diskurs Religion: Beiträge zur Religionsgeschichte und religiösen Zeitgeschichte 14. With Sebastian Schüler and Lutz Greisiger. Baden-Baden: Ergon, 2017.

“Beyond the Modern Self: Madness and Divine Communion in Fin-de-siècle Germany.” Religion und Wahnsinn um 1900: Zwischen Pathologisierung und Selbstermächtigung. Religion and Madness Around 1900: Between Pathology and Self-Empowerment. Diskurs Religion: Beiträge zur Religionsgeschichte und religiösen Zeitgeschichte 14. Ed. Lutz Greisiger, Sebastian Schüler, Alexander van der Haven. Baden-Baden: Ergon, 2017: 69–100.

“Comparison, Practice, and Meaning: Martin Riesebrodt’s Theory of Religion.” Method and Theory in the Study of Religion: Working Papers from Hannover. Supplements to Method and Theory in the Study of Religion 8. Ed. Steffen Führding. Leiden/Boston: Brill, 2017: 27–37.

“God as Hypothesis: Daniel Paul Schreber and the Study of Religion.” Method and Theory in the Study of Religion: Working Papers from Hannover. Supplements to Method and Theory in the Study of Religion 8. Ed. Steffen Führding. Leiden/Boston: Brill, 2017: 176–198.

“Conversion on Trial: Toleration of Apostasy and the Hoorn Trial of Three Converts to Judaism (1614–5).” Contesting Inter-Religious Conversion in the Medieval World. Ed. Yaniv Fox and Yosi Yisraeli. London/New York: Routledge, 2016: 41–60.

“Hypothetical Religion: The Supernatural as an Experience and Experiment.” Super Religion: From the Supernatural to the Paranormal. Macmillan Interdisciplinary Handbooks 9. Ed. Jeffrey J. Kripal. Farmington Hills, MI: Macmillan Reference USA, 2016: 263–276.

“The War and Transcendental Order: Critique of Violence in Benjamin, Canetti, and Daniel Paul Schreber.” Tel Aviver Jahrbuch für deutsche Geschichte 43 (2015): 115–144.

From Lowly Metaphor to Divine Flesh: Sarah the Ashkenazi, Sabbatai Tsevi’s Messianic Queen and the Sabbatian Movement. Menasseh ben Israel Instituut Studies 7. Amsterdam: Menasseh ben Israel Institute, 2012.

“Eine Erlöserin mit Schnurrbart: Daniel Paul Schrebers religiöse Offenbarungen.” Von Aposteln bis Zionisten: Religiöse Kultur im Leipzig des Kaiserreichs. Ed. Iris Edelheiser. Marburg: Diagonal-Verlag, 2010: 177–184.

“The Holy Fool Still Speaks: The Jerusalem Syndrome as a Religious Subculture.” Jerusalem: Idea and Reality. Ed. Tamar Mayer and Suleiman A. Mourad. London/New York: Routledge, 2008: 103–122.

Academic article

Show author(s) (2023). Religious Minorities: Conceptual Perspectives. Religious Minorities Online (RMO). 30 pages.
Show author(s) (2023). A Normative Turn in the Study of Religions?: Reflections on Richard Miller's Why Study Religion? Method & Theory in the Study of Religion. 15 pages.
Show author(s) (2023). A Jewish Qur’an: An Eighteenth-Century Hebrew Qur’an Translation in Its Indian Context. Religions. 30 pages.

Show author(s) (2021). The Seventeenth-Century Vida of the Proselyte Abraham Pelengrino, alias Manoel Cardoso de Macedo: Analysis and Translation. Studia Rosenthaliana. Journal of the History, Culture and Heritage of the Jews in the Netherlands. 166-195.

Show author(s) (2020). Jews and Christians United: The 1701 Prosecution of Oliger Paulli and his Dutch Printers. Studia Rosenthaliana. Journal of the History, Culture and Heritage of the Jews in the Netherlands. 71-95.

Show author(s) (2019). The Earliest Footprint of a Messianic Queen: Sarah the Ashkenazi in Amsterdam. Zutot: Perspectives on Jewish Culture. 15-21.
Show author(s) (2019). Jewish-Christianity and the Confessionalization of Amsterdam’s Seventeenth-Century Portuguese Jewish Community. Cadernos de Estudos Sefarditas. 117-143.

Show author(s) (2018). Predestination and Toleration: The Dutch Republic’s Single Judicial Persecution of Jews in Theological Context. Renaissance Quarterly. 165-205.
Show author(s) (2018). Afvalligen en predikanten: Het proces tegen drie bekeerlingen tot het Jodendom tijdens de Hoornse kerkstrijd. Kwartaalblad Oud Hoorn. 166-173.

Show author(s) (2015). The War and Transcendental Order: A Critique of Violence in Walter Benjamin, Elias Canetti and Daniel Paul Schreber. Tel Aviver Jahrbuch für deutsche Geschichte. 115-144.

Academic lecture

Show author(s) (2023). The Mechanics of Conversion: Language, Selfhood, and Conversion in Early Seventeenth Jewish Proselyte Writings.
Show author(s) (2023). Polemics and Jewish Identity in Early Modern Jewish Editions of Proselyte Writings.
Show author(s) (2023). Neither Jews nor Muslims: The Hymns of the Turkish Ma’aminim, Last of the Sabbatians.
Show author(s) (2023). Discussing Religious Minorities.

Show author(s) (2022). Translation and Religious Universalism in Eighteenth-Century India .
Show author(s) (2022). The 1702 Arrest of the Danish Religious Visionary Oliger Paulli in the Context of his Politico-Religious Milieu of Socinians and Spinozists.
Show author(s) (2022). Jewish Trauma and Memory in the Aftermath of the Seventeenth-Century Khmelnitzky Massacres.
Show author(s) (2022). From Theology to Theology: The Emancipation and Rise of Study of Religion at the University of Leipzig and its Afterlife in Wach's Chicago.

Show author(s) (2021). The Jewish Qur’an: An Eighteenth-Century Qur’an Hebrew Qur’an Translation.
Show author(s) (2021). The End and the Past: The Apocalypse and Collective Memory.
Show author(s) (2021). Jewish paratexts and rewritings of proselyte writings (1600-1850).

Show author(s) (2020). Tolerantie en de Bestandstwisten in Hoorn.
Show author(s) (2020). The Desirability of Persecution: Napoleon and the Jews.

Show author(s) (2019). The Madness of Sacred Space: Some Critical Reflections on the Jerusalem Syndrome.
Show author(s) (2019). The Jewish Qur’an: An Eighteenth-Century Hebrew Qur’an Translation.
Show author(s) (2019). Teresa of Avila’s Interior Castle.
Show author(s) (2019). Early Modern Translations from Dutch into Hebrew and Yiddish.
Show author(s) (2019). Early Modern Proselyte Writings: Between Personal Testimony and Polemical Interpretation.
Show author(s) (2019). Defending Slavery in 1850 Atlanta.
Show author(s) (2019). A Curious Approach to Religious Redemption born of Nineteenth-Century German Scientism.

Show author(s) (2018). The Rise and Fall of Double Predestination.
Show author(s) (2018). Immanent Gods.
Show author(s) (2018). Estrangement and Modern Religion.
Show author(s) (2018). Early Modern Conversion to Judaism.

Show author(s) (2017). Varieties of Conversion to Judaism in Seventeenth-Century Amsterdam.
Show author(s) (2017). The Secular as Religion: Making Religion in Darwin’s Century.
Show author(s) (2017). The Jerusalem Syndrome.
Show author(s) (2017). The Ger’s Story: Early Modern Proselyte Autobiographies.
Show author(s) (2017). Sex Change and Salvation.
Show author(s) (2017). Predestination and Toleration: The Sole Persecution of Jews in the Dutch Republic in the Context of Calvinist Debates About Free Will.
Show author(s) (2017). Philistine Foreskins: Conversion to Judaism in the Dutch Republic.
Show author(s) (2017). Judeo-Christianity and Conversion to Judaism in the Seventeenth-Century Dutch Republic.
Show author(s) (2017). Jewish Proselyte Writings.
Show author(s) (2017). A Spirited Woman Rather than an Imbecilic Man: Conversion in an Immanent Universe.

Show author(s) (2016). The Eschaton, Conversion and ‘Religion’ in the Letters of Benedictus Sebastian Sperling.
Show author(s) (2016). Christian Mission in the New World and in the Catholic Empires in the Beginning of the Modern Era: Between Catholicism and Protestantism.

Show author(s) (2015). Response to "Sharing Scripture: The textual entanglement of Judaism and Christianity Converts as Mediators".
Show author(s) (2015). Madness and Religion in Daniel Paul Schreber’s Revelations.
Show author(s) (2015). Conversion to Judaism in the Dutch Republic.

Show author(s) (2014). Prophecy, Conversion and ‘Religion’ in the Letters of Benedict Sebastian Sperling.
Show author(s) (2014). Immanence and Violence before the Great War: Daniel Paul Schreber’s Religious Visions.
Show author(s) (2014). Conversion on Trial: the Hoorn Trial Against Three Converts to Judaism.

Show author(s) (2013). The Exegesis of Philip K. Dick.
Show author(s) (2013). Schreber’s Memoirs.
Show author(s) (2013). Proselyte Correspondence in the Seventeenth-Century Dutch Republic.
Show author(s) (2013). Making Sense out of Nonsense: The Shared Epistemology of Schreber and his Psychoanalytic Readers.
Show author(s) (2013). Immanence and Authority: Apotheosis in Mormon History.
Show author(s) (2013). Believing and Not Believing in the Academic Study of Religion.
Show author(s) (2013). Allowing Apostasy: Religious Reasons for Allowing Gentile Conversion to Judaism in the Dutch Republic.

Show author(s) (2012). Sarah the Ashkenazi and the Background of Nonmetaphorical Interpretations in Early Sabbatianism: Historiographical Issues.

Show author(s) (2011). Sarah the Ashkenazi and the Sabbatian Movement.
Show author(s) (2011). Revelation with Footnotes: Thinking about Science and Religion.
Show author(s) (2011). Response to Panel “Non–canonical/nationalist reinventions of religions’ narratives of origins.”.
Show author(s) (2011). From Language to Body: Revelation in Daniel Paul Schreber’s Memoirs.

Show author(s) (2010). Violently Acting on the Beyond: Religion, Violence and the Imaginary.
Show author(s) (2010). Scientific Immanence as Religion: Schreber as a Religious Thinker.

Show author(s) (2009). Vom Nutzen und Nachteil of Psychology for the Study of Religious Apocalypticism.
Show author(s) (2009). Harlot, Wife or Woman: Historical Questions of Gender and the Search for the Historical Sarah b. Meir, the Messianic Bride from Amsterdam.

Show author(s) (2008). Religion, Culture and the Jerusalem Syndrome.

Show author(s) (2007). Fin-de-siècle Debates on Hypnosis and the Schreber Case.
Show author(s) (2007). Daniel Paul Schreber and the Religions of the Late Kaiserzeit.

Show author(s) (2006). Religious Imagination: The Schreber Case.

Show author(s) (2005). The Jerusalem Syndrome: Israel’s Foreigners on a Religious Mission.
Show author(s) (2005). The Jerusalem Syndrome.
Show author(s) (2005). Issues of Religion and Forensic Psychiatry in the Schreber Case.

Book review

Show author(s) (2020). Menasseh ben Israel: Rabbi of Amsterdam by Steven Nadler; Judaism for Christians. Menasseh ben Israel (1604–1657) by Sina Rauschenbach. Studia Rosenthaliana. Journal of the History, Culture and Heritage of the Jews in the Netherlands. 238-243.

Show author(s) (2008). Western Esotericism: A Brief History of Secret Knowledge by Kocku von Stuckrad. The Journal of Religion. 133-134.
Show author(s) (2008). Western Esotericism and Rituals of Initiation by Henrik Bogdan. The Journal of Religion. 555-557.

Academic anthology/Conference proceedings

Show author(s) (2017). Religion und Wahnsinn um 1900: Zwischen Pathologisierung und Selbstermächtigung. Religion and Madness Around 1900: Between Pathology and Self-Empowerment. Ergon-Verlag.

Show author(s) (1995). Intellectuele kringen in de twintigste eeuw. Studium Generale, Utrecht University.

Academic monograph

Show author(s) (2018). שרה האשכנזיה, מלכת השבתאים. unnumbered.

Show author(s) (2012). From Lowly Metaphor to Divine Flesh: Sarah the Ashkenazi, Sabbatai Tsevi’s Messianic Queen and the Sabbatian Movement.

Database

Show author(s) (2023). Religious Minorities Online.