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During the second half of the nineteenth century many Japanese viewed Christianity as incompatible with Japanese values. As a result of these factors, some Japanese theologians have attempted to theologize from Japanese contexts in an ecclesial environment independent from western missionary organizations. Uchimura Kanzo's (1861-1930) founding of the Mukyokai (Non-Church Movement) in 1901 marked the first attempts to develop an indigenous Christian movement along these lines. Uchimura's attempts to find points of commonality between Christianity and the Japanese context led him to begin to grapple theologically with themes pertinent to interfaith dialogue. Here, Morris explores some of these themes in Uchimura's work and seeks to situate his theology within its wider historical context. He argues that Uchimura uses references to non-Christian religions as literary devices and as examples for the betterment of Christianity, while also postulating that God was active in the religious histories of non-Christian peoples.

Flavio Bessi and Jan Pfeifer attempt to set a viable classification system to categorize the rotation habits of high-level artistic gymnasts in the Women's Individual All Around finalists at the Olympic Games Rio 2016. Caroline Molinari, Vitor Costa, Kamau Monteiro and Myrian Nunomura analyzed the Brazilian Women's Artistic Gymnastics team participation over the last four cycles (2004-2016) in order to identify and discuss the factors associated to the results and contributions to the development of this sport in the country. William Sands and Olyvia Donti characterized and analyzed the durations of careers of U.S. elite female gymnasts who had qualified for Olympic Games and World Championships teams and compare these with the team rank from 1936 to 2016.

Charts the introduction of Christianity to Japan through the life of Uchimura Kanzô, was one of Japan's foremost thinkers, whose ideas influenced contemporary novelists, statesmen, reformers, and religious leaders.

iThe first book-length study to explore the links between Christianity and modern Japanese literature, this book analyzes the process of conversion of nine canonical authors, unveiling the influence that Christianity had on their self-construction, their oeuvre and, ultimately, the trajectory of modern Japanese literature. Building significantly on previous research, which has treated the intersections of Christianity with the Japanese literary world in only a cursory fashion, this book emphasizes the need to make a clear distinction between the different roles played by Catholicism and Protestantism. In particular, it argues that most Meiji and Taishō intellectuals were exposed to an exclusively Protestant and mainly Calvinist derivation of Christianity and so it is against this worldview that the connections between the two ought to be assessed. Examining the work of authors such as Kitamura Tōkoku, Akutagawa Ryūnosuke and Nagayo Yoshirō, this book also contextualizes the spread of Christianity in Japan and challenges the notion that Christian thought was in conflict with mainstream literary schools. As such, this book explains how the dualities experienced by many modern writers were in fact the manifestation of manifold developments that placed Christianity at the center, rather than at the periphery, of their process of self-construction. The Dilemma of Faith in Modern Japanese Literature will be of great interest to students and scholars of Japanese modern literature, as well as those interested in Religious Studies and Japanese Studies more generally.