The ivory tower has always been metaphoric, but as Steven Shapin shows, its symbolic value has shifted over the centuries.

And so should you.

The story of Cizhong’s Catholic holiday festival began when French missionaries arrived in northwest Yunnan with plans to spread their faith across Tibet.

Celebrate with some seasonal scholarship from JSTOR Daily for the winter holidays.

Playing the role of a shopping mall Santa comes with challenges familiar to any gig worker, but the performers also see the job as carrying special meaning.

Southeast Asian Americans navigated evolving cultural norms while building grassroots organizations to combat violence against women.

In writing and life, the Australian Nobel Laureate was ever preoccupied by the search for spiritual meaning and the fraught relationship between God and blundering humanity.

The framework used by theologians to understand emotions changed in the Middle Ages, thanks in part to new translations of Arabic texts.

We may have heard enough about xenophobia, the fear of the stranger. But what of its opposite, the love for a stranger, better known as hospitality?

The use of sensory stimulants like incense gave Jesuits a common framework with the North American nations they encountered on missionary trips.