Rev. James Fredericks

Rev. James Fredericks, Ph.D. is a Professor Emeritus in the Department of Theological Studies at Loyola Marymount University and a priest of the Archdiocese of San Francisco. He is also a specialist in inter-religious dialogue, especially the dialogue between Buddhism and Christianity, working with Buddhist communities in Japan, Taiwan and the United States. He was a Senior Fulbright Research Scholar in Kyoto, Japan, and held the Numata Chair in Buddhism and Culture at Ryukoku University in Kyoto. In addition to many articles, he is the author of Faith Among Faiths: Christian Theology and the Non-Christian Religions (Paulist Press) and Buddhists and Christians: Through Comparative Theology to a New Solidarity  (Orbis Books). He is the co-editor of Interreligious Friendships After Nostra Aetate (Palgrave-MacMillan 2015). He has lectured internationally in Japan, China, India, Iran, and Europe and his work has been translated into Japanese, Chinese, German, and Spanish.