Vincent F. Biondo III is Assistant Professor of Western Religious Traditions at California State University, Fresno. He has studied Buddhism at the University of London and Arabic at the American University in Cairo. Vince earned his Ph.D. from the University of California, Santa Barbara in the History of Religions and Islamic Studies in 2005. Vince has been named a Fulbright Scholar to the UK to compare interfaith efforts in California and Wales, working with Cardiff University’s School of Religious and Theological Studies.