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Michael Barnes, S.J. is reader and senior tutor in Interreligious Relations at Heythrop College, London. A Jesuit since 1965, his area of expertise is Buddhism and Eastern religions. He is also the director of the De Nobili Dialogue Centre in London, which focuses on interfaith communication and understanding. Barnes has served as a consultant to the Pontifical Council for Inter-religious Dialogue in Rome and to the ecumenical Churches Commission on Inter-faith Relations; he is a member of the Roman Catholic Committee for Other Faiths. From 1996 to 2001 he was general editor of The Way journals. He is the author of, among others, Interreligious Learning: Dialogue, Spirituality and the Christian Imagination (2012) and "Reading Other Religious Texts: Intratextuality and the Logic of Scripture" (2011).