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Alexander van der Haven

Professor, religionsvitenskap
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Utvalgte publikasjoner

“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). 31 pp. https://doi.org/10.1515/rmo.23389320.

“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). 15 pp. https://doi.org/10.1163/15700682-bja10117.

“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. https:777doi/10.5117/SR2020.1-2.004.KUNE.

“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. https://doi.org/10.1163/9789004427921_004.

“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. https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110664713-005.

“The Earliest Footprint of a Messianic Queen: Sarah the Ashkenazi in Amsterdam.” Zutot: Perspectives on Jewish Culture 17 no. 1 (2019): 15–21. https://doi.org/10.1163/18750214-12171082.

“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. https://doi.org/10.1086/696886.

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. https://doi.org/10.5771/9783956503610.

“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. https://doi.org/10.5771/9783956503610-69.

“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. https://doi.org/10.1163/9789004347878_003.

“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. https://doi.org/10.1163/9789004347878_010.

“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. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315574028.

“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.

Vitenskapelig artikkel
  • Vis forfatter(e) (2023). Religious Minorities: Conceptual Perspectives. Religious Minorities Online (RMO). 30 sider.
  • Vis forfatter(e) (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 sider.
  • Vis forfatter(e) (2023). A Jewish Qur’an: An Eighteenth-Century Hebrew Qur’an Translation in Its Indian Context. Religions. 30 sider.
  • Vis forfatter(e) (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.
  • Vis forfatter(e) (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.
  • Vis forfatter(e) (2019). The Earliest Footprint of a Messianic Queen: Sarah the Ashkenazi in Amsterdam. Zutot: Perspectives on Jewish Culture. 15-21.
  • Vis forfatter(e) (2019). Jewish-Christianity and the Confessionalization of Amsterdam’s Seventeenth-Century Portuguese Jewish Community. Cadernos de Estudos Sefarditas. 117-143.
  • Vis forfatter(e) (2018). Predestination and Toleration: The Dutch Republic’s Single Judicial Persecution of Jews in Theological Context. Renaissance Quarterly. 165-205.
  • Vis forfatter(e) (2018). Afvalligen en predikanten: Het proces tegen drie bekeerlingen tot het Jodendom tijdens de Hoornse kerkstrijd. Kwartaalblad Oud Hoorn. 166-173.
  • Vis forfatter(e) (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.
Vitenskapelig foredrag
  • Vis forfatter(e) (2023). The Mechanics of Conversion: Language, Selfhood, and Conversion in Early Seventeenth Jewish Proselyte Writings.
  • Vis forfatter(e) (2023). Polemics and Jewish Identity in Early Modern Jewish Editions of Proselyte Writings.
  • Vis forfatter(e) (2023). Neither Jews nor Muslims: The Hymns of the Turkish Ma’aminim, Last of the Sabbatians.
  • Vis forfatter(e) (2023). Discussing Religious Minorities.
  • Vis forfatter(e) (2022). Translation and Religious Universalism in Eighteenth-Century India .
  • Vis forfatter(e) (2022). The 1702 Arrest of the Danish Religious Visionary Oliger Paulli in the Context of his Politico-Religious Milieu of Socinians and Spinozists.
  • Vis forfatter(e) (2022). Jewish Trauma and Memory in the Aftermath of the Seventeenth-Century Khmelnitzky Massacres.
  • Vis forfatter(e) (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.
  • Vis forfatter(e) (2021). The Jewish Qur’an: An Eighteenth-Century Qur’an Hebrew Qur’an Translation.
  • Vis forfatter(e) (2021). The End and the Past: The Apocalypse and Collective Memory.
  • Vis forfatter(e) (2021). Jewish paratexts and rewritings of proselyte writings (1600-1850).
  • Vis forfatter(e) (2020). Tolerantie en de Bestandstwisten in Hoorn.
  • Vis forfatter(e) (2020). The Desirability of Persecution: Napoleon and the Jews.
  • Vis forfatter(e) (2019). The Madness of Sacred Space: Some Critical Reflections on the Jerusalem Syndrome.
  • Vis forfatter(e) (2019). The Jewish Qur’an: An Eighteenth-Century Hebrew Qur’an Translation.
  • Vis forfatter(e) (2019). Teresa of Avila’s Interior Castle.
  • Vis forfatter(e) (2019). Early Modern Translations from Dutch into Hebrew and Yiddish.
  • Vis forfatter(e) (2019). Early Modern Proselyte Writings: Between Personal Testimony and Polemical Interpretation.
  • Vis forfatter(e) (2019). Defending Slavery in 1850 Atlanta.
  • Vis forfatter(e) (2019). A Curious Approach to Religious Redemption born of Nineteenth-Century German Scientism.
  • Vis forfatter(e) (2018). The Rise and Fall of Double Predestination.
  • Vis forfatter(e) (2018). Immanent Gods.
  • Vis forfatter(e) (2018). Estrangement and Modern Religion.
  • Vis forfatter(e) (2018). Early Modern Conversion to Judaism.
  • Vis forfatter(e) (2017). Varieties of Conversion to Judaism in Seventeenth-Century Amsterdam.
  • Vis forfatter(e) (2017). The Secular as Religion: Making Religion in Darwin’s Century.
  • Vis forfatter(e) (2017). The Jerusalem Syndrome.
  • Vis forfatter(e) (2017). The Ger’s Story: Early Modern Proselyte Autobiographies.
  • Vis forfatter(e) (2017). Sex Change and Salvation.
  • Vis forfatter(e) (2017). Predestination and Toleration: The Sole Persecution of Jews in the Dutch Republic in the Context of Calvinist Debates About Free Will.
  • Vis forfatter(e) (2017). Philistine Foreskins: Conversion to Judaism in the Dutch Republic.
  • Vis forfatter(e) (2017). Judeo-Christianity and Conversion to Judaism in the Seventeenth-Century Dutch Republic.
  • Vis forfatter(e) (2017). Jewish Proselyte Writings.
  • Vis forfatter(e) (2017). A Spirited Woman Rather than an Imbecilic Man: Conversion in an Immanent Universe.
  • Vis forfatter(e) (2016). The Eschaton, Conversion and ‘Religion’ in the Letters of Benedictus Sebastian Sperling.
  • Vis forfatter(e) (2016). Christian Mission in the New World and in the Catholic Empires in the Beginning of the Modern Era: Between Catholicism and Protestantism.
  • Vis forfatter(e) (2015). Response to "Sharing Scripture: The textual entanglement of Judaism and Christianity Converts as Mediators".
  • Vis forfatter(e) (2015). Madness and Religion in Daniel Paul Schreber’s Revelations.
  • Vis forfatter(e) (2015). Conversion to Judaism in the Dutch Republic.
  • Vis forfatter(e) (2014). Prophecy, Conversion and ‘Religion’ in the Letters of Benedict Sebastian Sperling.
  • Vis forfatter(e) (2014). Immanence and Violence before the Great War: Daniel Paul Schreber’s Religious Visions.
  • Vis forfatter(e) (2014). Conversion on Trial: the Hoorn Trial Against Three Converts to Judaism.
  • Vis forfatter(e) (2013). The Exegesis of Philip K. Dick.
  • Vis forfatter(e) (2013). Schreber’s Memoirs.
  • Vis forfatter(e) (2013). Proselyte Correspondence in the Seventeenth-Century Dutch Republic.
  • Vis forfatter(e) (2013). Making Sense out of Nonsense: The Shared Epistemology of Schreber and his Psychoanalytic Readers.
  • Vis forfatter(e) (2013). Immanence and Authority: Apotheosis in Mormon History.
  • Vis forfatter(e) (2013). Believing and Not Believing in the Academic Study of Religion.
  • Vis forfatter(e) (2013). Allowing Apostasy: Religious Reasons for Allowing Gentile Conversion to Judaism in the Dutch Republic.
  • Vis forfatter(e) (2012). Sarah the Ashkenazi and the Background of Nonmetaphorical Interpretations in Early Sabbatianism: Historiographical Issues.
  • Vis forfatter(e) (2011). Sarah the Ashkenazi and the Sabbatian Movement.
  • Vis forfatter(e) (2011). Revelation with Footnotes: Thinking about Science and Religion.
  • Vis forfatter(e) (2011). Response to Panel “Non–canonical/nationalist reinventions of religions’ narratives of origins.”.
  • Vis forfatter(e) (2011). From Language to Body: Revelation in Daniel Paul Schreber’s Memoirs.
  • Vis forfatter(e) (2010). Violently Acting on the Beyond: Religion, Violence and the Imaginary.
  • Vis forfatter(e) (2010). Scientific Immanence as Religion: Schreber as a Religious Thinker.
  • Vis forfatter(e) (2009). Vom Nutzen und Nachteil of Psychology for the Study of Religious Apocalypticism.
  • Vis forfatter(e) (2009). Harlot, Wife or Woman: Historical Questions of Gender and the Search for the Historical Sarah b. Meir, the Messianic Bride from Amsterdam.
  • Vis forfatter(e) (2008). Religion, Culture and the Jerusalem Syndrome.
  • Vis forfatter(e) (2007). Fin-de-siècle Debates on Hypnosis and the Schreber Case.
  • Vis forfatter(e) (2007). Daniel Paul Schreber and the Religions of the Late Kaiserzeit.
  • Vis forfatter(e) (2006). Religious Imagination: The Schreber Case.
  • Vis forfatter(e) (2005). The Jerusalem Syndrome: Israel’s Foreigners on a Religious Mission.
  • Vis forfatter(e) (2005). The Jerusalem Syndrome.
  • Vis forfatter(e) (2005). Issues of Religion and Forensic Psychiatry in the Schreber Case.
Anmeldelse
  • Vis forfatter(e) (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.
  • Vis forfatter(e) (2008). Western Esotericism: A Brief History of Secret Knowledge by Kocku von Stuckrad. The Journal of Religion. 133-134.
  • Vis forfatter(e) (2008). Western Esotericism and Rituals of Initiation by Henrik Bogdan. The Journal of Religion. 555-557.
Vitenskapelig antologi/Konferanseserie
  • Vis forfatter(e) (2017). Religion und Wahnsinn um 1900: Zwischen Pathologisierung und Selbstermächtigung. Religion and Madness Around 1900: Between Pathology and Self-Empowerment. Ergon-Verlag.
  • Vis forfatter(e) (1995). Intellectuele kringen in de twintigste eeuw. Studium Generale, Utrecht University.
Vitenskapelig monografi
  • Vis forfatter(e) (2018). שרה האשכנזיה, מלכת השבתאים. unnumbered.
  • Vis forfatter(e) (2012). From Lowly Metaphor to Divine Flesh: Sarah the Ashkenazi, Sabbatai Tsevi’s Messianic Queen and the Sabbatian Movement.
Database
  • Vis forfatter(e) (2023). Religious Minorities Online.
Populærvitenskapelig artikkel
  • Vis forfatter(e) (2017). Eine Erlöserin mit Schnurrbart: Daniel Paul Schrebers religiöse Offenbarungen. Kleingärten – einst und jetzt. 20-26.
Intervju
  • Vis forfatter(e) (2021). SZ Series Episode 6: With Prof. Alexander van der Haven discussing Sarah Ashkenazi.
  • Vis forfatter(e) (2020). Het zitvlees van de vertaler: René Kurpershoek in gesprek met Peter Buwalda en Alexander van der Haven.
Vitenskapelig Kapittel/Artikkel/Konferanseartikkel
  • Vis forfatter(e) (2023). Een (niet onkritische) liefdesbrief aan de Romantiek: Rob de Ruig als humaan historicus. 4 sider.
  • Vis forfatter(e) (2021). The End as the Past/Das Ende als Vergangenheit. 6 sider.
  • Vis forfatter(e) (2020). Eschatology and Conversion in the Sperling Letters. 21 sider.
  • Vis forfatter(e) (2020). An Ashkenazic Halakhic Fragment from a Book Binding in Leiden University Library. 7 sider.
  • Vis forfatter(e) (2017). Hypothetical Religion: The Supernatural as an Experience and Experiment. 14 sider.
  • Vis forfatter(e) (2017). God as Hypothesis: Daniel Paul Schreber and the Study of Religion. 23 sider.
  • Vis forfatter(e) (2017). Einleitung. 8 sider.
  • Vis forfatter(e) (2017). Comparison, Practice, and Meaning: Martin Riesebrodt’s Theory of Religion. 11 sider.
  • Vis forfatter(e) (2017). Beyond the Modern Self: Madness and Divine Communion in Fin-de-siècle Germany. 32 sider.
  • Vis forfatter(e) (2016). Conversion on Trial: Toleration of Apostasy and the Hoorn Trial of Three Converts to Judaism (1614–5). 20 sider.
  • Vis forfatter(e) (2010). Eine Erlöserin mit Schnurrbart: Daniel Paul Schrebers religiöse Offenbarungen. 8 sider.
  • Vis forfatter(e) (2008). The Holy Fool Still Speaks: The Jerusalem Syndrome as a Religious Subculture. 20 sider.
Leksikonartikkel
  • Vis forfatter(e) (2023). Noli me tangere (literature). 719-720. I:
    • Vis forfatter(e) (2023). Encyclopedia of the Bible and its Reception. Vol. 21 Negative Theology – Offspring.
  • Vis forfatter(e) (2020). Mental disorder (literature). 686-689. I:
    • Vis forfatter(e) (2020). Encyclopedia of the Bible and its Reception. 18.
  • Vis forfatter(e) (2017). Kiss (Literature). 364-366. I:
    • Vis forfatter(e) (2017). Encyclopedia of the Bible and its Reception (EBR) Online. Vol. 15: Kalam - Lectio Divina.
  • Vis forfatter(e) (2016). Jerusalem (literature). 1075-1077. I:
    • Vis forfatter(e) (2016). Encyclopedia of the Bible and its reception (EBR). 13 Integrity-Jesuit order. Walter de Gruyter (De Gruyter).
  • Vis forfatter(e) (2015). Heart (Literature). 537-538. I:
    • Vis forfatter(e) (2015). Encyclopedia of the Bible and its reception. Vol. 11: Halah-Hizquni.
Poster
  • Vis forfatter(e) (2012). The Invisible Women of the Seventeenth–century Jewish Messianic Movement.
Oversatt kapittel
  • Vis forfatter(e) (2017). Thomas Coenen, Vain Hopes of the Jews. 8-11.
  • Vis forfatter(e) (2017). Leopold von Sacher-Masoch, Sabbatai Tsevi. 177-182.
Nettsider (opplysningsmateriale)
  • Vis forfatter(e) (2022). Kan eksklusivisme være hyggelig?

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