JKK-Various Works

Fruits of Various Research Projects

[2024] Kato, Julius-Kei. “Thich Nhat Hanh's Interpretation of the Dharma as a Viable Spirituality in a Secular Age.” In Buddhist-Christian Studies, Volume 44, 2024. University of Hawai`i Press. https://doi.org/10.1353/bcs.2024.a940772 . [Peer-reviewed Journal Article]

[2024] Kato, Julius-Kei. “The New Testament as a Village Where We Can Meet Our Spiritual Ancestors.” The Fourth R: A Journal for Religious Literacy, Volume 37, No. 1 (January-February 2024): 19-20, 26. [Peer-reviewed Magazine Article for a general audience]

[2023] Kato, Julius-Kei. “Confronting John’s Shadows while Basking in Its Lights: A Theological Attempt to Deal with the Fourth Gospel’s Ambivalence.” In MST Review: A Journal of Interdisciplinary Theological Research, Volume 25, Number 2 (December 2023). [Peer-reviewed Journal Article]

[2023] Kato, Julius-Kei. "Discerning Religion's Holistic Character and Ecumenical Capability in a Pluralistic Society: The Potential Contribution of the Integral Theory." Journal of Ecumenical Studies, Volume 58, No. 4 (2023): 524-543. [Peer-reviewed Journal Article]

[2023] Kato, Julius-Kei. Reading the Bible in a Secular Age: The New Testament as Spiritual Ancestry. Eugene, OR: Cascade Books, 2023. Summary of Main Points of the Book. Summary of Book in Bart Ehrman Blog. [Monograph]

[2023] Kato, Julius-Kei. "The Great Founding Ancestor: Yeshua - Trying to Glimpse the Flesh-and-Blood Figure Behind the Icon." In Reading the Bible in a Secular Age: The New Testament as Spiritual Ancestry. Eugene, OR: Cascade Books, 2023, Chapter 9: 154-173. [Chapter 9 of my 2023 Monograph]

[2023] Kato, Julius-Kei. “‘Jesus | Christ’ OR ‘Jesus—Christ’? Robert Funk vis-à-vis Edward Schillebeeckx on the Link Between the Historical ‘Jesus’ and Faith in Him as the ‘Christ’.” Landas (Journal of Loyola School of Theology-Ateneo de Manila University), Volume 35, No. 1 (2023): 1-27. [Peer-reviewed Journal Article]

[2022] Kato, Julius-Kei. “What Has Hybridity Got to Do with Ecology? What Christian-Buddhist Hybridity-as-a-Hermeneutical-Lens Can Suggest to the Theological Conversation on Ecology.” In Buddhist-Christian Studies, Volume 42, 2022: 105-117. University of Hawai`i Press. [Peer-reviewed Journal Article]

[2022] Kato, Julius-Kei. “Looking for God in the Complexities of Filipino Migration and Diaspora: Theology and Filipino Cultural Identities in a Globalized World.” In Catholicism in Migration and Diaspora: Cross-Border Filipino Perspectives, edited by Gemma Tulud Cruz, Chapter 1, 19-31. London: Routledge, 2022

[2022] Kato, Julius-Kei. "First Came the Jesus of History and Then Came the Christ Child.” The Fourth R: A Journal for Religious Literacy, Volume 35, No. 4 (July-August 2022): 17-18.

[2021] Kato, Julius-Kei. “Luke-Acts as Scripture Speaking From and To Migration.” In The Church and Migration: Global (In)Difference, edited by Michael Attridge, Darren Dias, Jaroslav Skira, and Gerard Mannion. New York: Palgrave-Macmillan, 2021. [Peer-reviewed Book Chapter]

[2020] Kato, Julius-Kei. “Church and Change in a Hybridized World.” Berkley Forum: Changing the Church: The Legacy of Gerrard Manion. Georgetown University-Berkley Center for Religion, Peace, & World Affairs, September 23, 2020. [Online Article]

[2020] Kato, Julius-Kei. “Why Read the Bible in a Secular Age? An Unapologetic Apologia for the Importance of Biblical Studies Today.” The Fourth R: A Journal for Religious Literacy, Volume 33, No. 4 (July-August 2020): 17-20. [Peer-reviewed article for a general audience]

[2020] Kato, Julius-Kei. “How do We Interpret the Beatitudes?” The Bart Ehrman Blog: The History and Literature of Early Christianity (blog). June 24, 2020. [Peer-reviewed Online Article for a general audience]

[2019] Kato, Julius-Kei. “The Necessary Inner Liberative Dimension: An Asian North American Perspective on How Paul Might Speak to Migrant Workers’ Adversities.” Critical Theology 2, no. 1 (Fall 2019): 9-16. [Peer-reviewed Journal Article]

[2019] Kato, Julius-Kei. “Did Jesus Claim that He Was God? Why We Should Respect the New Testament Reticence to Declare Bluntly ‘Jesus is God.’” (in 3 parts) Catholica (Australia), April 2019. [Online Article for a general audience]

[2019] Kato, Julius-Kei. “What Amy Tan’s The Bonesetter’s Daughter Can Teach Us about the Relevance of Biblical Studies.” Asian American Theological Forum (AATF) 6, no. 2 (2019). https://aatfweb.org/2019/11/16/what-amy-tans-the-bonesetters-daughter-can-teach-us-about-the-relevance-of-biblical-studies/ . [Peer-reviewed Journal Article]

[2019] Kato, Julius-Kei. “The Pathos of Mark’s Jesus and the Pathos of Migrant Life: Migration as a Source for Theology and Biblical Interpretation.” In Migration and Religion: Negotiating Sites of Hospitality, Resistance, and Vulnerability, edited by Andrea Bieler, Isolde Karle, HyeRan Kim-Cragg, and Ilona Nord. Leipzig: Evangelische Verlagsanstalt, 2019. [Peer-reviewed Book Chapter]

[2019] Kato, Julius-Kei. “Toward an Asian North American Liberationist Hermeneutics.” In The T&T Clark Handbook to Asian American Biblical Hermeneutics, edited by Uriah Kim and Seung Ai Yang. London: T&T Clark/Bloomsbury, 2019. [Peer-reviewed Book Chapter]

[2018] Spiritual but not Religious: Spirituality in a Globalized and Hybridized World. I wrote this short outline of a research topic that I've been working on these past few years for King's Cosmos 2018 (September edition), a publication that showcases the research projects of King's professors. I plan to work on this project in a more concentrated way in the near future. [2018-09] [Peer-reviewed essay]

[2016] Kato, Julius-Kei. “Peter C. Phan: His Life, Work, and Contributions to World Christianity.” In World Christianity and Global Theologizing, edited by Jonathan Tan and Anh Q. Tran, SJ. Maryknoll, NY: Orbis, 2016. [Peer-reviewed Book Chapter]

[2016] Kato, Julius-Kei. “Talking Back to our Parents: What Asian-North American Theology Can Theologically Suggest Back to Asia.” In Many Yet One? Multiple Religious Belonging, edited by Joseph Prabhakar Dayam and Peniel Jesudason Rufufs Rajkumar. Geneva: World Council of Churches Publications, 2016. [Peer-reviewed Book Chapter]

[2016] Kato, Julius-Kei. “Epistemic Confidence, Humility and Kenosis in Interfaith Dialogue.” In Interfaith Dialogue: Global Perspectives, edited by Edmund Chia. New York: Palgrave-Macmillan, 2016. [Peer-reviewed Book Chapter]

Kato, Julius-Kei. Religious Language and Asian American Hybridity. New York: Palgrave-Macmillan, 2016. [Monograph]

[2015] Kato, Julius-Kei. “Interpretation.” In Asian American Religious Cultures, edited by Jonathan H.X. Lee, Jane Naomi Iwamura, Fumitaka Matsuoka, Edmond Yee, and Ronald Nakasone. Santa Barbara, CA: ABC-CLIO, 2015. [Peer-reviewed Encyclopedia Entry]

[2014] Kato, Julius-Kei. “Hans Küng through Asian Eyes.” The Japan Mission Journal 68, no. 3 (Autumn 2014): 156-166. [Peer-reviewed journal article]

[2014] Kato, Julius-Kei. “The ‘Seed that Has to Die’ for Authentic Interreligious Dialogue to Occur: Interreligious Dialogue, Epistemic Confidence and Kenosis.” In Paths to Dialogue in our Age: Volume 2 – International Perspectives, edited by Edmund Kee-Fook Chia and Fatih Erol Tuncer. Fitzroy, Victoria, Australia: Australian Catholic University, 2014. [Peer-reviewed Book Chapter]

[2014] Kato, Julius-Kei. “The Prophetic Call of Narrative Forms of Theology: Narrative Theology, Asian Tendencies and Roman Emphases.” East Asian Pastoral Review 51, no. 1 (2014): 1-24. [Peer-reviewed Journal Article]

[2012] Kato, Julius-Kei. How Immigrant Christians Living in Mixed Cultures Interpret Their Religion: Asian-American Diasporic Hybridity and Its Implications for Hermeneutics. Lewiston, NY: Edwin Mellen Press, 2012. [Monograph]

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