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Sali Augustine
Sali Augustine S.J.,(Born 23 May 1968) is Associate Professor, Sophia University, Tokyo, Japan. He is a Jesuit Priest from Kerala, India.

Biography
Sali Augustine was born on 23 May 1968 at Edoor, Kannur District of Kerala, India. He completed his school education at St. Mary's High School, Edoor and pre-degree course in Nirmalagiri College, Kuthuparamba. He joined the Society of Jesus (Jesuits) Novitiate in Kozhikode/Calicut in 1989 after spending a year of pre-novitiate in Aluva in 1987. He completed the Jesuit Juniorate in 1991 at Dindigul, Tamilnadu. He did his B.A in Political Science at Calicut University in Kerala. During the year

1995-97 he studied Philosophy at Jnanadeepa Vidhyapeeth(JDV)Pune/Poona in Maharashtra, India. He went to Japan in 1997 and learned Japanese before being appointed teacher at Rokko High School, Kobe, Japan in 1999. He began his Theology studies in the year 2000 and got ordained in 2003 at St. Mary's Forane Church, Edoor, Kerala.

He started research on Ethnic Conflicts in particular Communal Violence in India since 2002, joining the Graduate program of Area Studies, Graduate division of Foreing Studies, Sophia Univesity. He completed his Ph.D in Area Studies/Ethnic Politics in 2007.

Work and Responsibilities
Sali Augustine started teaching Christian Humanism in 2007, joined the Institute of Philisophical Anthopology at Faculty of Literature, Sophia University, Tokyo Japan. He was then appointed Associate Professor, Faculty of Theology in 2009. Since October 2011 Sali Augustine is the Director of Catholic Center of Sophia School Corporation, which is the center of Campus Ministry at Sophia University. Currently he is the Director of the Center for Student Affairs of Sophia University, Tokyo.

Academic Background
Specialized in Ethnic Conflict, Sali Augustine's research covers communal conflict in India, Religion and Soceity, Human Rights, Rights of Minorities and Social Ethics. "Religion and Cultural Nationalism:Socio-Political Dynamism of Communal Violence in India", Identity in Crossroad Civilizations: Ethnicity, Nationalism and Globalism in Asia, ed. Erich Kolig, Vivienne SM. Angeles and Sam Wong, and "Healing our broken Environment:Reflections on Eco-Faith Concerns of the Church after the 3.11-Japan's Nuclear Disaster", Asian Horizons-Dharmaram Journal of Theology are some of his publications.

Other
Sali Augustine was the Vocation Promoter of the Japanese province of the Society of Jesus during 2006-2013.