Sven Rune Havsteen

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Education

1975-1979 Piano studies with Elisabeth Klein.

1982-83,86 Studies at Institut Catholique de Paris (philosophy).

1995 M.A. (theology), University of Copenhagen.

2004 PhD, University of Copenhagen (Department of Church History/Centre for Christianity and the Arts, The theological Faculty). Dissertation on the musico-theological thinking in 17th Century Lutheran tradition

Employments

1995  PhD-student at Department of Church History, University of Copenhagen.

1996 Assistant at Centre for Christianity and the Arts/Department of Church History, University of Copenhagen.

2001-2004 Assistant Professor and Head of Department at Institute of Theology, Ilismatusarfik – University of Greenland

2004 Research Assistant Professor at Danish National Research Foundation: Centre for the Study of the Cultural Heritage of Medieval Rituals. Research project: ‘Praxis Pietatis and the Use of the Arts in the Lutheran Tradition’.

2008 Research Associate Professor.

2010-13 Participant in the collective research project In-visibilis.Visibility and Transcendence in Religion, Art and Ethics.

2013-2017 Paricipant in the reserach project Solitudes: Withdrawal and Engagement in the long seventeenth Century, funded by ERC.

Current research

Music as a theological form of communication in Lutheran Christianity.

Bible reception in European music history.

Aesthetics of religion.

Primary fields of research

Christianity and the arts in Protestant traditions.

Music as a instrumentum pietatis in Lutheran tradition

J. S. Bach

Aesthetics of religion

Receptions of Medieval spiritual traditions in Protestant contexts

Reception of the Bible in music