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Alexander van der Haven

Stilling

Professor, religionsvitenskap

Tilhørighet

E-post: alexander.haven@uib.no
Telefonnummer: +47 55588600; +47 40593069
Besøksadresse: Øysteinsgate 3
5052 Bergen; Rom: 305
Postadresse: Postboks 7805
5020 Bergen

Alexander van der Haven

Stilling

Professor, religionsvitenskap

Tilhørighet

Forskergrupper

Minoritetsforskning

Publikasjoner

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.

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