Laura Yares
Biographic Data
| ID | 571095 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Laura Yares |
| GIVEN NAMES | Laura |
| FAMILY NAME | Yares |
| SIGNATURE | YARES L |
| AFFILIATIONS | North-West State Technical University |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-8711-1069 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 4 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 1 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 4 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2021 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
The Biblical Remnants Under the Bleachers
Scholars of American religion should be attentive to the ways in which academic Religious Studies in a US context have been implicated in the acquisition of sacred objects from religious communities abroad. This article illustrates these entanglements with a case study tracing the acquisition history of a collection of religious artifacts removed from the Samaritan community of Nablus in Palestine. It uses archival records to reconstruct the coll…
The Material Inventories of Millennial Jewish Lives
Down the street from the Liberty Bell and a block away from Independence Hall, Philadelphia’s National Museum of American Jewish History (NMAJH) offers tourists a Jewish take on America’s past. For Jewish visitors to NMAJH, the museum sets personal narratives in national contexts, embodied by objects that have animated Jewish life for centuries. Most research on encounters between visitors and religious objects in museums is situated within exhib…
“Saturday Night Seder” and the Affordances of Cultural Arts during Covid-19
Wrestling with Tradition
This article analyzes how congregants in a lay-led Reconstructionist synagogue discursively contest and perform sharedness through active engagement, interpretation, and public disagreements about how to create and sustain Jewish community. I argue that such ‘wrestling with tradition’—that is, questioning, negotiating, and (re)creating traditions in the context of countercultural and eclectic Jewish community—is achieved through collaborative and…
The Material Inventories of Millennial Jewish Lives
Down the street from the Liberty Bell and a block away from Independence Hall, Philadelphia’s National Museum of American Jewish History (NMAJH) offers tourists a Jewish take on America’s past. For Jewish visitors to NMAJH, the museum sets personal narratives in national contexts, embodied by objects that have animated Jewish life for centuries. Most research on encounters between visitors and religious objects in museums is situated within exhib…
“Saturday Night Seder” and the Affordances of Cultural Arts during Covid-19
Wrestling with Tradition
This article analyzes how congregants in a lay-led Reconstructionist synagogue discursively contest and perform sharedness through active engagement, interpretation, and public disagreements about how to create and sustain Jewish community. I argue that such ‘wrestling with tradition’—that is, questioning, negotiating, and (re)creating traditions in the context of countercultural and eclectic Jewish community—is achieved through collaborative and…
The Material Inventories of Millennial Jewish Lives
Down the street from the Liberty Bell and a block away from Independence Hall, Philadelphia’s National Museum of American Jewish History (NMAJH) offers tourists a Jewish take on America’s past. For Jewish visitors to NMAJH, the museum sets personal narratives in national contexts, embodied by objects that have animated Jewish life for centuries. Most research on encounters between visitors and religious objects in museums is situated within exhib…
The Biblical Remnants Under the Bleachers
Scholars of American religion should be attentive to the ways in which academic Religious Studies in a US context have been implicated in the acquisition of sacred objects from religious communities abroad. This article illustrates these entanglements with a case study tracing the acquisition history of a collection of religious artifacts removed from the Samaritan community of Nablus in Palestine. It uses archival records to reconstruct the coll…
Art (3 works) · Jewish and Middle Eastern Studies (3 works) · Jewish Identity and Society (3 works) · Judaism (3 works) · Sociology (3 works) · Aesthetics (2 works) · Context (archaeology (2 works) · History (2 works) · Media studies (2 works) · Visual arts (2 works)