Conference lecture

• Alexander van der Haven (2024). 7. oktober og tiden etterpå. (external link)
• Alexander van der Haven (2021). The End and the Past: The Apocalypse and Collective Memory. (external link)
• Alexander van der Haven (2013). Making Sense out of Nonsense: The Shared Epistemology of Schreber and his Psychoanalytic Readers. (external link)
• Alexander van der Haven (2009). Vom Nutzen und Nachteil of Psychology for the Study of Religious Apocalypticism. (external link)
• Alexander van der Haven (2008). Religion, Culture and the Jerusalem Syndrome. (external link)
• Alexander van der Haven (2005). Issues of Religion and Forensic Psychiatry in the Schreber Case. (external link)
• Alexander van der Haven (2007). Daniel Paul Schreber and the Religions of the Late Kaiserzeit. (external link)
• Alexander van der Haven (2017). Sex Change and Salvation. (external link)
• Alexander van der Haven (2017). A Spirited Woman Rather than an Imbecilic Man: Conversion in an Immanent Universe. (external link)
• Alexander van der Haven (2019). Defending Slavery in 1850 Atlanta. (external link)
• Alexander van der Haven (2022). Jewish Trauma and Memory in the Aftermath of the Seventeenth-Century Khmelnitzky Massacres. (external link)
• Alexander van der Haven (2005). The Jerusalem Syndrome: Israel’s Foreigners on a Religious Mission. (external link)
• Alexander van der Haven (2018). Immanent Gods. (external link)
• Alexander van der Haven (2019). Early Modern Translations from Dutch into Hebrew and Yiddish. (external link)
• Alexander van der Haven (2017). The Secular as Religion: Making Religion in Darwin’s Century. (external link)
• Alexander van der Haven (2018). Estrangement and Modern Religion. (external link)
• Alexander van der Haven (2020). The Desirability of Persecution: Napoleon and the Jews. (external link)
• Alexander van der Haven (2019). A Curious Approach to Religious Redemption born of Nineteenth-Century German Scientism. (external link)
• Alexander van der Haven (2016). The Eschaton, Conversion and ‘Religion’ in the Letters of Benedictus Sebastian Sperling. (external link)
• Alexander van der Haven (2022). The 1702 Arrest of the Danish Religious Visionary Oliger Paulli in the Context of his Politico-Religious Milieu of Socinians and Spinozists. (external link)
• Alexander van der Haven (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. (external link)
• Alexander van der Haven (2014). Prophecy, Conversion and ‘Religion’ in the Letters of Benedict Sebastian Sperling. (external link)
• Alexander van der Haven (2014). Immanence and Violence before the Great War: Daniel Paul Schreber’s Religious Visions. (external link)
• Alexander van der Haven (2024). Religious Minorities in Israel. (external link)
• Alexander van der Haven; Erica Baffelli (2023). Discussing Religious Minorities. (external link)
• Alexander van der Haven (2023). Neither Jews nor Muslims: The Hymns of the Turkish Ma’aminim, Last of the Sabbatians. (external link)
• Alexander van der Haven; Claude Stuczynski (2016). Christian Mission in the New World and in the Catholic Empires in the Beginning of the Modern Era: Between Catholicism and Protestantism. (external link)
• Alexander van der Haven (2017). Predestination and Toleration: The Sole Persecution of Jews in the Dutch Republic in the Context of Calvinist Debates About Free Will. (external link)
• Alexander van der Haven (2017). The Ger’s Story: Early Modern Proselyte Autobiographies. (external link)
• Alexander van der Haven (2019). The Madness of Sacred Space: Some Critical Reflections on the Jerusalem Syndrome. (external link)
• Alexander van der Haven (2019). The Jewish Qur’an: An Eighteenth-Century Hebrew Qur’an Translation. (external link)
• Alexander van der Haven (2022). Translation and Religious Universalism in Eighteenth-Century India. (external link)
• Alexander van der Haven (2014). Conversion on Trial: the Hoorn Trial Against Three Converts to Judaism. (external link)
• Alexander van der Haven (2025). Other Borders: Religious Identity and Interaction in Early Modern Dutch and Colonial Worlds. (external link)
• Alexander van der Haven (2015). Response to "Sharing Scripture: The textual entanglement of Judaism and Christianity Converts as Mediators". (external link)
• Alexander van der Haven (2013). Immanence and Authority: Apotheosis in Mormon History. (external link)
• Alexander van der Haven (2013). Schreber’s Memoirs. (external link)
• Alexander van der Haven (2011). Response to Panel “Non–canonical/nationalist reinventions of religions’ narratives of origins.”. (external link)
• Alexander van der Haven (2012). Sarah the Ashkenazi and the Background of Nonmetaphorical Interpretations in Early Sabbatianism: Historiographical Issues. (external link)
• Alexander van der Haven (2007). Fin-de-siècle Debates on Hypnosis and the Schreber Case. (external link)
• Alexander van der Haven (2021). The Jewish Qur’an: An Eighteenth-Century Qur’an Hebrew Qur’an Translation. (external link)
• Alexander van der Haven (2005). The Jerusalem Syndrome. (external link)
• Alexander van der Haven (2015). Conversion to Judaism in the Dutch Republic. (external link)
• Alexander van der Haven (2023). The Mechanics of Conversion: Language, Selfhood, and Conversion in Early Seventeenth Jewish Proselyte Writings. (external link)
• Alexander van der Haven (2017). The Jerusalem Syndrome. (external link)
• Alexander van der Haven (2019). Early Modern Proselyte Writings: Between Personal Testimony and Polemical Interpretation. (external link)
• Alexander van der Haven (2017). Philistine Foreskins: Conversion to Judaism in the Dutch Republic. (external link)
• Alexander van der Haven (2017). Judeo-Christianity and Conversion to Judaism in the Seventeenth-Century Dutch Republic. (external link)
• Alexander van der Haven (2010). Violently Acting on the Beyond: Religion, Violence and the Imaginary. (external link)
• Alexander van der Haven (2013). The Exegesis of Philip K. Dick. (external link)
• Alexander van der Haven (2011). From Language to Body: Revelation in Daniel Paul Schreber’s Memoirs. (external link)
• Alexander van der Haven (2015). Madness and Religion in Daniel Paul Schreber’s Revelations. (external link)
• Alexander van der Haven (2025). Navigating the Boundaries of Religious Identity: Labeling, Secrecy, and Recognition in Minority Communities. (external link)
• Alexander van der Haven (2021). Jewish paratexts and rewritings of proselyte writings (1600-1850). (external link)
• Alexander van der Haven (2024). The History of Sensibilities. (external link)
• Alexander van der Haven (2013). Allowing Apostasy: Religious Reasons for Allowing Gentile Conversion to Judaism in the Dutch Republic. (external link)
• Alexander van der Haven (2009). Harlot, Wife or Woman: Historical Questions of Gender and the Search for the Historical Sarah b. Meir, the Messianic Bride from Amsterdam. (external link)
• Alexander van der Haven (2006). Religious Imagination: The Schreber Case. (external link)
• Alexander van der Haven (2023). Polemics and Jewish Identity in Early Modern Jewish Editions of Proselyte Writings. (external link)
• Alexander van der Haven (2019). Teresa of Avila’s Interior Castle. (external link)
• Alexander van der Haven (2020). Tolerantie en de Bestandstwisten in Hoorn. (external link)
• Alexander van der Haven (2017). Jewish Proselyte Writings. (external link)
• Alexander van der Haven (2018). The Rise and Fall of Double Predestination. (external link)
• Alexander van der Haven (2018). Early Modern Conversion to Judaism. (external link)
• Alexander van der Haven (2017). Varieties of Conversion to Judaism in Seventeenth-Century Amsterdam. (external link)
• Alexander van der Haven (2011). Revelation with Footnotes: Thinking about Science and Religion. (external link)
• Alexander van der Haven (2011). Sarah the Ashkenazi and the Sabbatian Movement. (external link)
• Alexander van der Haven (2013). Proselyte Correspondence in the Seventeenth-Century Dutch Republic. (external link)
• Alexander van der Haven (2010). Scientific Immanence as Religion: Schreber as a Religious Thinker. (external link)
• Alexander van der Haven (2013). Believing and Not Believing in the Academic Study of Religion. (external link)

Academic book chapter

• Alexander van der Haven (2023). Een (niet onkritische) liefdesbrief aan de Romantiek: Rob de Ruig als humaan historicus. (external link)
• Alexander van der Haven; Yakov Z. Mayer (2020). An Ashkenazic Halakhic Fragment from a Book Binding in Leiden University Library. (external link)
• Alexander van der Haven (2017). God as Hypothesis: Daniel Paul Schreber and the Study of Religion. (external link)
• Alexander van der Haven (2020). Eschatology and Conversion in the Sperling Letters. (external link)
• Alexander van der Haven (2017). Hypothetical Religion: The Supernatural as an Experience and Experiment. (external link)
• Alexander van der Haven (2008). The Holy Fool Still Speaks: The Jerusalem Syndrome as a Religious Subculture. (external link)
• Alexander van der Haven (2010). Eine Erlöserin mit Schnurrbart: Daniel Paul Schrebers religiöse Offenbarungen. (external link)
• Alexander van der Haven; Lutz Greisiger; Sebastian Schüler (2017). Einleitung. (external link)
• Alexander van der Haven (2024). Practices and the promise of salvation: On Martin Riesebrodt, The Promise of Salvation (2007/2010). (external link)
• Alexander van der Haven (2021). The End as the Past/Das Ende als Vergangenheit. (external link)
• Alexander van der Haven (2016). Conversion on Trial: Toleration of Apostasy and the Hoorn Trial of Three Converts to Judaism (1614–5). (external link)
• Alexander van der Haven (2017). Comparison, Practice, and Meaning: Martin Riesebrodt’s Theory of Religion. (external link)
• Alexander van der Haven (2017). Beyond the Modern Self: Madness and Divine Communion in Fin-de-siècle Germany. (external link)

Academic article

• Alexander van der Haven (2018). Afvalligen en predikanten: Het proces tegen drie bekeerlingen tot het Jodendom tijdens de Hoornse kerkstrijd. (external link)
• Alexander van der Haven; Ronnie Perelis (2021). The Seventeenth-Century Vida of the Proselyte Abraham Pelengrino, alias Manoel Cardoso de Macedo: Analysis and Translation. (external link)
• Alexander van der Haven (2023). A Jewish Qur’an: An Eighteenth-Century Hebrew Qur’an Translation in Its Indian Context. (external link)
• Michael Stausberg; Laura Feldt; Christian Bull et al. (2025). Religion as a Social Kind? Reflections on Stanley Stowers’s New Realist Theory and the Study of Ancient Mediterranean Religion. (external link)
• Robert Morris Gray Jr; Laura Cruz; Andrea Ragonese et al. (2025). ‘Capturing moments’ and ‘creating opportunities’: applications of the writerly peer observation framework. (external link)
• Alexander van der Haven (2015). The War and Transcendental Order: A Critique of Violence in Walter Benjamin, Elias Canetti and Daniel Paul Schreber. (external link)
• Alexander van der Haven; Michael Stausberg; Erica Baffelli (2023). Religious Minorities: Conceptual Perspectives. (external link)
• Michael Stausberg; Ingvild S. Gilhus; Christian Bull et al. (2023). A Normative Turn in the Study of Religions?: Reflections on Richard Miller's Why Study Religion?. (external link)
• Alexander van der Haven (2019). The Earliest Footprint of a Messianic Queen: Sarah the Ashkenazi in Amsterdam. (external link)
• Alexander van der Haven (2019). Jewish-Christianity and the Confessionalization of Amsterdam’s Seventeenth-Century Portuguese Jewish Community. (external link)
• Jeannine Kunert; Alexander van der Haven (2020). Jews and Christians United: The 1701 Prosecution of Oliger Paulli and his Dutch Printers. (external link)
• Alexander van der Haven (2018). Predestination and Toleration: The Dutch Republic’s Single Judicial Persecution of Jews in Theological Context. (external link)

Journal review

• Michael Stausberg; Alexander van der Haven (2024). Book review: Religious Minorities at Risk, written by Matthias Basedau, Jonathan Fox, and Ariel Zellman. (external link)
• Alexander van der Haven (2008). Western Esotericism and Rituals of Initiation by Henrik Bogdan. (external link)
• Alexander van der Haven (2024). The Posen Library of Jewish Culture and Civilization, Volume 5: The Early Modern Period, 1500-1750” by Yosef Kaplan, ed.. (external link)
• Alexander van der Haven (2020). Menasseh ben Israel: Rabbi of Amsterdam by Steven Nadler; Judaism for Christians. Menasseh ben Israel (1604–1657) by Sina Rauschenbach. (external link)
• Alexander van der Haven (2008). Western Esotericism: A Brief History of Secret Knowledge by Kocku von Stuckrad. (external link)

Book anthology

• Alexander van der Haven; Frank Hendrickx; Jan Weerdenburg (1995). Intellectuele kringen in de twintigste eeuw. (external link)
• Alexander van der Haven; Lutz Greisiger; Sebastian Schüler (2017). Religion und Wahnsinn um 1900: Zwischen Pathologisierung und Selbstermächtigung. Religion and Madness Around 1900: Between Pathology and Self-Empowerment. (external link)

Popular science article

• Alexander van der Haven (2025). Macht Religion krank?. (external link)
• Alexander van der Haven (2017). Eine Erlöserin mit Schnurrbart: Daniel Paul Schrebers religiöse Offenbarungen. (external link)

Academic monograph

• Alexander van der Haven (2018). שרה האשכנזיה, מלכת השבתאים. (external link)
• Alexander van der Haven (2012). From Lowly Metaphor to Divine Flesh: Sarah the Ashkenazi, Sabbatai Tsevi’s Messianic Queen and the Sabbatian Movement. (external link)

Media interview

• Nachi Weinstein; Alexander van der Haven (2021). SZ Series Episode 6: With Prof. Alexander van der Haven discussing Sarah Ashkenazi. (external link)
• Alexander van der Haven; Peter Buwalda (2020). Het zitvlees van de vertaler: René Kurpershoek in gesprek met Peter Buwalda en Alexander van der Haven. (external link)

Encyclopedia entry

• Alexander van der Haven (2023). Noli me tangere (literature). (external link)
• Alexander van der Haven (2015). Heart (Literature). (external link)
• Alexander van der Haven (2017). Kiss (Literature). (external link)
• Alexander van der Haven (2016). Jerusalem (literature). (external link)
• Alexander van der Haven (2020). Mental disorder (literature). (external link)

Lecture

• Alexander van der Haven (2024). Tingenes betydning: Fakta, symboler og navn. Fortolkninger og mening knyttet til den israelsk-palestinske konflikten. (external link)

Conference poster

• Alexander van der Haven (2012). The Invisible Women of the Seventeenth–century Jewish Messianic Movement. (external link)

See a complete overview of publications in Cristin.

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.

Religious Minorities Online (Walter de Gruyter)