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Jaime Lara

Associate Professor of Christian Art & Architecture, and Chair, Program in Religion and the Arts

jaime.lara@yale.edu
(203) 432-9752

B.A., Cathedral College
M.Div., Immaculate Conception Seminary
M.A., University of the City of New York
S.T.M., Yale University Divinity School
Ph.D., Graduate Theological Union and the University of California, Berkeley

Professor Lara has degrees and interest in art, architecture, liturgics, and anthropology. His studies have focused on early Christianity, the Spanish Middle Ages, medieval theater, and the colonial era of Latin America. His most recent publications include City, Temple, Stage: Eschatological Architecture and Liturgical Theatrics in New Spain; scholarly articles in Studies in Church History, The Oxford History of Christian Worship, The Languages of Worship/Los Lenguajes de la Liturgia, and The Psalms in Community. His second book, Christian Texts for Aztecs: Art and Liturgy in Colonial Mexico, is about to appear. He has a book on New Haven and its houses of worship in preparation, and another on volcanoes, myths, and the Book of Revelation in the Andean countries.

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City, Temple , Stage: Eschatological Architecture & Liturgical Tradition in New Spain, 2004