Jim Fredericks is a Roman Catholic priest of the Archdiocese of San Francisco and a
faculty member in the Department of Theological Studies at Loyola Marymount University.
He is a specialist in inter-religious dialogue, especially the dialogue between Buddhism
and Christianity, and has lectured internationally in Japan, China, India, Iran, and
Europe. He was a Senior Fulbright Research Scholar in Kyoto, Japan, and held the Numata
Chair in Buddhism and Culture at Ryukoku University in Kyoto. For many years, he has been
a member of the Los Angeles Buddhist-Catholic Dialogue Group and the Bay Area
Zen/Chan-Catholic Dialogue Group. 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).
His work has been translated into Japanese, Chinese, German, Spanish and Catalan.
