Publications

On this page you will find an alphabetical list of publications. Where possible links to digitized versions of the publications are included or downloadable files have been provided.

Edited Collections

• L.W.C. van Lit and J. H. Morris, eds., Digital Humanities and Religions in Asia: An Introduction (Berlin: De Gruyter, 2023).

Book Chapters

• James Harry Morris, “Bible and Religious Literature Translation and Indigenous Religious Texts: Printing Operations and the Production of Texts in Japan, 1549-1912,” The Palgrave Handbook of the Catholic Church in East Asia, edited by Cindy Yik-yi Chu and Beatrice Leung (Singapore: Springer Nature, 2021), 1-33.
• James Harry Morris, “Christian-Muslim Relations in 19th Century Japan,” in Christian-Muslim Relations: A Bibliographical History, Volume 16, North America, South-East Asia, China, Japan and Australasia (1800-1914), edited by David Thomas and John Chesworth (Leiden: Brill, 2020), 485-506.
• L.W.C. van Lit and James Harry Morris, “Conclusion: Surprising Effects of the Digital Turn,” in Digital Humanities and Religions in Asia: An Introduction edited by L.W.C. van Lit and J. H. Morris (Berlin: De Gruyter, 2023), 317-328.
• James Harry Morris, “Conflict, conquest & reconquest. Arabian and Iberian experience,” in Christian-Muslim Relations: A Bibliographical History, Volume 15, Thematic Essays (600-1600), edited by Douglas Pratt and Charles Tieszen with David Thomas and John Chesworth (Leiden: Brill, 2020), 435-360.
• James Harry Morris, “Evangelization and Indigenous Communities in Japan: 1549–1600,” The Palgrave Handbook of the Catholic Church in East Asia, edited by Cindy Yik-yi Chu and Beatrice Leung (Singapore: Springer Nature, 2021), 1-35.
• James Harry Morris, “Japanese Texts in the Digital Age: Thoughts on New Possibilities in the Transcription of Pre-Modern Japanese,” Practicing Japan. 35 Years of Japanese Studies in Poznań and Kraków, edited by Y. Horie, H. Jaskiewisc et al. (Dąbrówka: Wydawnictwo Rys, 2023), 109-121.
• James Harry Morris, “Meiji Kirisutokyōto to Musurimu Kankei” 明治キリスト教徒とムスリム関係, in Kindai Nihon to Chūtō・Isurāmuken: Hito・mono・jōhō no kōsaku kara miru 近代日本と中東・イスラーム圏：ヒト・モノ・情報の交錯から見る, edited by Ono Ryōsuke 小野亮介 and Unno Noriko 海野典子 (Tokyo: Tokyo Univeristy of Foreign Studies, Research Institute for Languages and Cultures of Asia and Africa, 2022), 11-45.
• James Harry Morris, “Missiology in the Digital Age: Challenges and Opportunities for the Study of Pre-Modern Christianity in Japan,” in Digital Humanities and Religions in Asia: An Introduction edited by L.W.C. van Lit and J. H. Morris (Berlin: De Gruyter, 2023), 205-232.
• James Harry Morris and L.W.C. van Lit, “The Digital Humanities and the History of Religion in Asia: An Introduction,” in Digital Humanities and Religions in Asia: An Introduction edited by L.W.C. van Lit and J. H. Morris (Berlin: De Gruyter, 2023), 1-26.
• James Harry Morris, “The Problem of Understanding Conversion: Religious Change and Interfaith Dialogue,” in Relating with Hindu Diaspora: Anglican and Lutheran Reflections, edited by Lucinda Mosher, Andrew Wingate, and Joshva Raja (London: Anglican Interfaith Networks, Lutheran Porvoo Communion, and World Council of Churches, 2015), 22-25.

Papers

• L. W. Cornelis van Lit, James H. Morris and Deniz Çevik, “A Digital Revival of Oriental Studies (Le retour numérique des études orientales),” ILCEA: Revue de l’Institut des langues et cultures d’Europe, Amérique, Afrique, Asie et Australie 39 (2020): 1-14.

• James Harry Morris, “Anti-Kirishitan Surveillance in Early Modern Japan,” Surveillance and Society 16, No. 4 (2018): 410-431.

• James Morris, “China, Japan, and Christian Emissaries to Muslim Lands,” Islam and Christian-Muslim Relations 29, No. 2 (2018): 167-191.
• Markus Rude, James Harry Morris, Anubhuti Chauhan, and Hiroaki Hatano, “Chording Needs Practice – Potential and Challenges of Moraic and Syllabic Typing for Language Learners and Everyday Users,” Gaikokugo Kyōiku Ronshū 外国語教育論集 45 (2023): 21-39.
• James Harry Morris, “Christian-Muslim Relations in China and Japan in the 16^th and early 17^th Centuries,” Islam and Christian-Muslim Relations 29, No. 1 (2018): 37-55.
• James Harry Morris, “Christianity, Martyrdom, and Pilgrimage in Ōkago Village,” Japan Mission Journal 69, No. 3 (2015): 206-216.

• James Morris, “Good Foods and Bad Foods: The 1862 Measles Epidemic and Diet in Edo,” Environment & Society Portal, Arcadia, Spring (2022), No. 4.

• James Harry Morris, “’Hitachi Kōzan nyūsu’ shi ni mirareru shokuseikatsu no henka” 『日立鉱山ニュース』誌に見られる食生活の変化, Shimin to Hakubutsukan 市民と博物館 147 (June 2023): 4.
• James Morris, “Hydroelectricity and the Ashio Copper Mine,” Environment & Society Portal, Arcadia, Spring (2023), No. 17.

• Murod Ismailov, James Harry Morris, and Carole Faucher, “Juggling between Market, Modernization, and Ideology: Internationalization of Higher Education in Central Asia,” International Higher Education, No. 112 (2022): 20-22.

• James Harry Morris,  “‘Lost’ Letters: The Presence of Jǐngjiào in Japan as explored by Sakae Ikeda,” Japan Mission Journal 69, No. 4 (2015): 255-266.

• James Harry Morris, “Meijiki ni okeru Ashio dōzan no shokushi” 明治期における足尾銅山の食史, Kōzan Kenkyū 鉱山研究 98 (2023): 25-36.
• James Harry Morris, “Meiji zenki no Eikoku to Ashio dōzan no kankei” 明治前期の英国と足尾銅山の関係, Kōzan Kenkyū 鉱山研究 97 (2022): 1-11.
• James Harry Morris, “Non-Christian Religions in the Work of Uchimura Kanzō,” CrossCurrents 72, No. 2 (2021): 196-219.
• James Harry Morris, “Rereading the evidence of the earliest Christian communities in East Asia during and prior to the Táng Period,” Missiology: An International Review 45, No. 3 (2017): 252-264.
• James Harry Morris, “The Case for Christianity in Japan prior to the 16^th Century,” Oriens Christianus 98 (2015): 109-137.
• James Harry Morris, “The Case for Christian Missionary Activity in Japan prior to the 16^th Century, Part II: Evidence of the Earliest Encounter with Abrahamic Religions in Japan – Religious Encounters in Yuán-Kamakura Relations,” Oriens Christianus 100 (2018): 153-187.
• James Harry Morris, “The Figures of Kōho and Li-mi-i, and the origins of the case for a Christian missionary presence in Tenpyō Era Japan,” Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society 27, No. 2 (2017): 313-323.
• James Harry Morris, “The Kirishitan Century in Tōhoku,” Fukushima Kōsen Kenkyū Kiyō 福島高専研究紀要 58 (2017): 137-144.

• James Harry Morris, “The Legacy of Peter Yoshirō Saeki: Evidence of Christianity in Japan before the arrival of Europeans,” The Journal of Academic Perspectives, Vol. 2016, No. 2: 1-22.

• James Harry Morris, “The Marginalized in the Pandemic Crisis,” The Japan Mission Journal 74, No. 4 (2020): 243-250.

Doctoral Thesis

• James Harry Morris, Rethinking the History of Conversion to Christianity in Japan: 1549-1644, (University of St Andrews, 2018).

Research Notes

• James Harry Morris, “A New Analysis of Persian Visits to Japan in the 7^th and 8^th Centuries,” Journal of International and Advanced Japanese Studies 国際日本研究 12(February 2020), 105-120.

• James Harry Morris, “Bunka Bunsei Jidai ni okeru Sendaihan no Kawadake to Kirishitan Teppō Aratame Yaku ni kansuru shiryō ni tsuite” 文化文政時代に於ける仙台藩の河田家と切支丹・鉄砲改役に関する史料について, Fukushima Kōsen Kenkyū Kiyō 福島高専研究紀要 59 (2018), 185-188.
• James Harry Morris, “Some Reflections on the First Muslim Visitor to Japan,” American Journal of Islamic Social Sciences 35, No. 3 (2018), 116-130.

• James Harry Morris, “Teaching about Othering in the Intercultural Communication Classroom: An Example and Reflections,” Gaikokugo Kyōiku Ronshū 外国語教育論集 43 (2021), 13-28.

Reference Works

• James Harry Morris, “Alvaro de Semedo,” in Christian-Muslim Relations: A Bibliographical History 1500-1900, Volume 11, edited by David Thomas and John Chesworth (Leiden: Brill, 2016), 351-355.

• James Harry Morris, “Álvaro de Semedo, The history of the great and renowned monarchy of China,” in Christian-Muslim Relations: Primary Sources, Volume 2, edited by M. Frederiks (London: Bloomsbury Academic, 2023), 325-328.
• James Harry Morris, “Arai Hakuseki,” in Christian-Muslim Relations: A Bibliographical History 1500-1900, Volume 12, edited by David Thomas and John Chesworth (Leiden: Brill, 2018), 658-665.

• James Harry Morris, “Arthur Evans Moule, The Chinese People,” in Christian-Muslim Relations: Primary Sources, Volume 3, edited by C. Bennett (London: Bloomsbury Academic, 2023), 311-314.
• James Harry Morris, “Christian-Muslim Relations in 19th Century Japan,” in Christian-Muslim Relations: A Bibliographical History, Volume 16, North America, South-East Asia, China, Japan and Australasia (1800-1914), edited by David Thomas and John Chesworth (Leiden: Brill, 2020), 724-737.
• James Harry Morris, “Diego de Pantoja,” in Christian-Muslim Relations: A Bibliographical History 1500-1900, Volume 11, edited by David Thomas and John Chesworth (Leiden: Brill, 2016), 291-296.

• James Harry Morris, “Diego de Pantoja, Account of the entry of some fathers of the Society of Jesus into China,” in Christian-Muslim Relations: Primary Sources, Volume 2, edited by M. Frederiks (London: Bloomsbury Academic, 2023), 317-320.
• James Harry Morris, “Eusèbe Renaudot, Accounts of India and China,” in Christian-Muslim Relations: Primary Sources, Volume 3, edited by C. Bennett (London: Bloomsbury Academic, 2023), 260-262.
• James Harry Morris, “Extract from a letter written by Jean Joseph Marie Amiot from Peking on 29 November 1784,” in Christian-Muslim Relations: Primary Sources, Volume 3, edited by C. Bennett (London: Bloomsbury Academic, 2023), 268-270.
• James Harry Morris, “Ferdinand Verbiest,” in Christian-Muslim Relations: A Bibliographical History 1500-1900, Volume 11, edited by David Thomas and John Chesworth (Leiden: Brill, 2016), 425-431.

• James Harry Morris, “Jesuits and Muslims in 17^th-century China,” in Christian-Muslim Relations: A Bibliographical History 1500-1900, Volume 11, edited by David Thomas and John Chesworth (Leiden: Brill, 2016), 432-441.

• James Harry Morris, “Johann Adam Schall,” in Christian-Muslim Relations: A Bibliographical History 1500-1900, Volume 11, edited by David Thomas and John Chesworth (Leiden: Brill, 2016), 377-381.

• James Harry Morris, “Joseph Emin,” in Christian-Muslim Relations: A Bibliographical History 1500-1900, Volume 20, edited by David Thomas and John Chesworth (Leiden: Brill, 2016), 394-405.
• James Harry Morris, “Kanzō Uchimura,” in Christian-Muslim Relations: A Bibliographical History, Volume 16, North America, South- East Asia, China, Japan and Australasia (1800-1914), edited by David Thomas and John Chesworth (Leiden: Brill, 2020), 738-749.
• James Harry Morris, “Lodovico Buglio,” in Christian-Muslim Relations: A Bibliographical History 1500-1900, Volume 11, edited by David Thomas and John Chesworth (Leiden: Brill, 2016), 393-399.

• James Harry Morris and Ho Wai Yip, “Marshall Broomhall,” in Christian-Muslim Relations: A Bibliographical History, Volume 16, North America, South-East Asia, China, Japan and Australasia (1800-1914), edited by David Thomas and John Chesworth (Leiden: Brill, 2020), 694-712.
• James Harry Morris, “Matteo Ricci,” in Christian-Muslim Relations: A Bibliographical History 1500-1900, Volume 11, edited by David Thomas and John Chesworth (Leiden: Brill, 2016), 301-305.

• James Harry Morris, “Mémoires concernant les Chinois,” in Christian-Muslim Relations: A Bibliographical History 1500-1900, Volume 12, edited by David Thomas and John Chesworth (Leiden: Brill, 2018), 666-686.

• James Harry Morris, “Mohammad Barakatullah and Ahmad Fadli, The Islamic Fraternity,” in Christian-Muslim Relations: Primary Sources, Volume 3, edited by C. Bennett (London: Bloomsbury Academic, 2023), 308-311.
• James Harry Morris, “Nicolas Trigault,” in Christian-Muslim Relations: A Bibliographical History 1500-1900, Volume 11, edited by David Thomas and John Chesworth (Leiden: Brill, 2016), 313-320.

• James Harry Morris, “Representative Christian works on Muslims and Islam in China, 1800-1914,” in Christian-Muslim Relations: A Bibliographical History, Volume 16, North America, South-East Asia, China, Japan and Australasia (1800-1914), edited by David Thomas and John Chesworth (Leiden: Brill, 2020), 650-693.
• James Harry Morris, “Roman Catholic orders in 17^th-century China,” in Christian-Muslim Relations: A Bibliographical History 1500-1900, Volume 11, edited by David Thomas and John Chesworth (Leiden: Brill, 2016), 446-460.

• James Harry Morris, “Roman Catholic orders in 17^th-century China,” in Christian-Muslim Relations: A Bibliographical History, Selected Readings (Bangalore: SAIACS Centre for Islamic Studies, 2017), 54-65.
• James Harry Morris, “Syed Ameer Ali, Critical examination of the life and teaching of Mohammed,” in Christian-Muslim Relations: Primary Sources, Volume 3, edited by C. Bennett (London: Bloomsbury Academic, 2023), 286-289.
• James Harry Morris, “The Jesuits in 17^th-century Japan,” in Christian-Muslim Relations: A Bibliographical History 1500-1900, Volume 11, edited by David Thomas and John Chesworth (Leiden: Brill, 2016), 332-338.

• James Harry Morris, “The Yongzheng Emperor,” in Christian-Muslim Relations: A Bibliographical History 1500-1900, Volume 12, edited by David Thomas and John Chesworth (Leiden: Brill, 2018), 653-657.

• James Harry Morris, “Yang Guangxian,” in Christian-Muslim Relations: A Bibliographical History 1500-1900, Volume 11, edited by David Thomas and John Chesworth (Leiden: Brill, 2016), 382-389.

Encyclopaedia Entries

• James Harry Morris, “Metsubo no Hi,” in End of Days: An Encyclopedia of the Apocalypse in World Religions, edited by Wendell G. Johnson (Santa Barbara, CA: ABC-CLIO, 2017), 239-243.
• James Harry Morris, “Moonies,” in Conspiracies and Conspiracy Theories in American History, Vol. 1, edited by Christopher R. Fee and Jeffrey B. Webb (Santa Barbara, CA: ABC-CLIO, 2019), 431-436.
• James Harry Morris, “Soka Gakkai,” in Encyclopedia of Women in World Religions: Faith and Culture Across History, Vol. 1, edited by Susan de Gaia (Santa Barbara, CA: ABC-CLIO, 2018), 140-142.

Bibliographies

• James Harry Morris, “A Bibliography of Japanese Language Publications on Syriac Christianity: 2019-2020,” Hugoye: Journal of Syriac Studies 24, No. 2 (2021): 537-540.

• James Harry Morris and Chen Cheng, “A Select Bibliography of Chinese and Japanese Language Publications on Syriac Christianity: 2000-2019,” Hugoye: Journal of Syriac Studies 23, No. 2 (2020): 355–415.

• James Harry Morris and Mariana Zorkina, “A Select Bibliography of Recent Chinese and Japanese Publications on Syriac Christianity: 2019/2020-2022,” Hugoye: Journal of Syriac Studies 26, No. 2 (2023): 533-551.

Book Reviews

• James Harry Morris, “Review of: Levi McLaughin, Soka Gakkai’s Human Revolution: The Rise of a Mimetic Nation in Modern Japan,” Japanese Journal of Religious Studies 46, No. 2 (2019), 332-335.

• James Harry Morris, “Dispelling the Darkness: A Jesuit’s Quest for the Soul of Tibet,” Contemporary Buddhism 23, No. 1 (2023), 1-3.

Other

• Shuma Shimizu, Tatsuya Minagawa, James Harry Morris, Xanat Vargas Meza, and Yoichi Ochiai, “Goshuin 2.0: Construction of the World’s Largest Goshuin Dataset and Automatic Generation System of Goshuin with Neural Style Transfer,” SIGGRAPH ’21: ACM SIGGRAPH 2021 Posters (August 2021).
• James Harry Morris, “Using TimelineJS in the English Language Classroom,” The Language Teacher 46, No. 5 (September-October 2022), 49-51.
• James Harry Morris, “Watashi no miru Nihon no gakujutsu Vol. 4” 私のみる日本の学術 Vol. 4, Gakujustu no Dōkō 学術の動向 29, No. 1 (2024): 94-97.