Julius-Kei Kato

Associate Professor, Department of Religious Studies, King’s University College at Western University, London, Ontario, Canada

Julius-Kei Kato is Associate Professor of Biblical and Religious Studies at King’s College-Western University, London, Ontario, Canada where, among other courses, he is responsible for teaching the course on Religious Pluralism. He has done graduate studies in Jerusalem (Hebrew University), Rome where he obtained a Licentiate in Sacred Scriptures (S.S.L.) from the Pontifical Biblical Institute in 1998, and Berkeley-California, where he received a Ph.D. in Systematic & Philosophical Theology (with a focus on hermeneutics) from the Graduate Theological Union in 2006. He did his undergraduate studies and later taught as Assistant Professor at the Sophia University in Tokyo, Japan where he encountered Buddhism in a significant way. Since then, he has always maintained a research interest in Buddhist-Christian studies. He is the author of How Immigrant Christians Living in Mixed Cultures Interpret Their Religion (2012) and Religious Language and Asian [North] American Hybridity (2016).