Julius-Kei Kato

Julius-Kei Kato, a proud Filipino-Japanese-Canadian, is professor of Biblical and Religious Studies at King’s University College-Western University, London, Ontario, Canada. He earned a Licentiate in Sacred Scriptures (SSL) from the Pontifical Biblical Institute, Rome and a PhD in Theology (with a focus in Hermeneutics) from the Graduate Theological Union, Berkeley, California.

He is the author of 'How Immigrant Christians Living in Mixed Cultures Interpret Their Religion: Asian-American Diasporic Hybridity and Its Implications for Hermeneutics' (2012), 'Religious Language and Asian [North] American Hybridity' (2016), and 'Reading the Bible in a Secular Age: The New Testament as Spiritual Ancestry' (2023).

He has previously taught at Sophia University, Tokyo, Japan; has been a visiting professor at Kwansei Gakuin University, Nishinomiya, Japan; and guest professor at the Ateneo de Manila University, Manila, Philippines. He is engaged in exploring how the biblical texts, the wider Christian tradition, and the various spiritual-wisdom traditions of the world could be in conversation with current realities in our hybridized and globalized world.