Mathias Schneider is Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the Center for Religion and Modernity and interim chair at the Institute for Religious Studies and Intercultural Theology at the University of Münster. He has recently published a monograph Buddhist Interpretations of Jesus: A Religious-Historical and Theological Study (TVZ Zurich, 2023). His main research interests are Buddhist–Christian relations, Comparative Theology, Christology, Eschatology, interreligious dialogue, and the theology of religions.