We formulate the Josephson effect in a field theoretic language whichaffords a straightforward generalization to the non-abelian case. Ourformalism interprets Josephson tunneling as the excitation of pseudo-Goldstone bosons. We demonstrate the formalism through theconsideration of a single junction separating two regions with apurely non-abelian order parameter and a sandwich of three regionswhere the central region is in a distinct phase. Applications tovarious non-abelian symmetry breaking systems in particle andcondensed matter physics are given.
