Alex Prosi earned their BA in Asian Studies with a sub-major in Japanese Studies. For the TCS program, they study religion in modern Japan. In their capstone thesis, they examine how the concept of “faith” emerges and is defined at key moments from the Meiji era (1868–1912) until the contemporary moment. By considering how shifting notions of of faith functioned in different discursive spaces, they demonstrate how various actors revised its definition in an effort to redefine the boundaries of religion and the secular.