Alec LeMay

Full-time, associate professor with over fifteen years of experience writing on issues involving multiculturalism in the Roman Catholic Church of Japan and identity formation of migrant children. Domestic and international research includes religious sites inside and outside Japan, with relations to the Philippines, the United States, and Canada.

• Inculturating Inculturation: Considering Multiculturalism within the Roman Catholic Church of Japan amongst Japanese, Filipino, and Filipino-Japanese, Sophia University Institute of Asian Culture, 2013, 57
• Silent Exodus: What the Flight of the Filipino-Japanese Child Says about Multiculturalism within the Catholic Tokyo Archdiocese, Sophia University, 2013, 305
• (Multicultural Dialogue within the Catholic Church of Japan), Doshisha University, 2008, 60

• Scars of Isolation: The Effects of Covid on the Catholic Tokyo Archdiocese, Bunkyo University Department Bulletin, 2024, Emilio Martinez, 10
• Do You See What I See? 'Religion' and Acculturation in Filipino-Japanese International Families, Religions, 2022, 13
• Blocking the Rosary? Filipinas, Mama Mary and Block Rosary Controversy, Bunkyo University Department Bulletin, 2020, 33-2, 1-28
• Implementing Multiculturalism through Structural Reform: The Case Study of Yamagoe Catholic Church, Bunkyo University Department Bulletin, 2019, 33-1, 73-104
• Mushukyo Identification and the Fragile Existence of Catholic Children in Japan, Religions, 2019, 10
• The Position of Mushukyo Practice in Religious Dialogue, Gengo to Bunka (Bunkyo Department Bulletin), 2018, 30, 179-218
• No Time for Church: School, Family and Filipino-Japanese Children's Acculturation, Social Science Japan Journal, 2018, 21, 25
• Teaching American Studies through Multimodal, CLIL Approach, Lingua Special Issue on CLIL (Sophia University), 2016, 41-47
• Applying Double Limited Studies to the Religiosity of Filipino-Japanese Children within the Roman Catholic Church of Japan, Lingua (Sophia University), 2015, 25, 19-43
• Bukatsudo and the Sport of Religious Assimilation, The Japan Mission Journal, 2014, 68, 196-203
• Filipino Investment, Multicultural Return: Considering Group Dynamics within Umeda Church, Yamaguchi University of Human Welfare and Culture Bulletin, 2014, 8, 20-38, Fujimoto, Yoko
• Religious Literacy and Its Implications to Multiculturalism, Lingua (Sophia University), 2012, 23, 97-120
• Teaching the Second Generation: Understanding Multicultural Dialogue through the Eyes of the Japanese-Filipino Family, The Journal of Sophia Asian Studies, 2008, 26, 75-96

• LeMay Zemi Graduation Theses 2023: Department of Foreign Languages, Bunkyo University, Independently Published, 2024, True
• Reviews: Garrett L. Washington, Church Space and the Capital in Prewar Japan, Asian Ethnology, 2023, 82-1, 183-4, Book Review
• LeMay Zemi Graduation Theses 2022: Department of Foreign Languages, Bunkyo University, Independently Published, 2023, True
• Reviews: Hisako Omori, From Situated Selves to the Self: Conversion and Personhood among Roman Catholics in Tokyo, Asian Ethnology, 2021, 80-1, 274-276, Book Review
• LeMay Zemi Graduation Theses 2021: Department of Foreign Languages, Bunkyo University, Independently Published, 2022, True
• LeMay Zemi Graduation Theses 2020: Department of Foreign Languages, Bunkyo University, Independently Published, 2021, True
• Zemi Theses (Graduation Theses Book Three), Independently Published, 2020, True
• Alec LeMay Zemi Graduation Theses 2018: Bunkyo University Faculty of Language and Literature, Independently Published, 2019, True
• Alec LeMay Zemi Graduation Theses: Bunkyo University Faculty of Language and Literature 2017, Independently Published, 2018, True
• M-ネット191』, 2017, Yoko Fujimoto
• (Resident Foreigner's Participation in Japan's Domestic Multiculturalism: Reflection on the Hogaku and Minyo Event by the Faculty of Foreign Languages), Gengo to Bunka (Bunkyo University), 2017, Jim Graham and Tomoko Yamakawa

Japanese Association for Religious Studies

Japan Association for Migrant Policy Studies

Association for the Sociology of Religion

American Association of Religion