Associate Professor Joel Hodge is National Head of the School of Theology at the Australian Catholic University, based in Melbourne. He is author of Violence in the Name of God: The Militant Jihadist Response to Modernity (Bloomsbury, 2020) and Resisting Violence and Victimisation: Christian Faith and Solidarity in East Timor (Ashgate/Routledge, 2012). He is also President of the Australian Catholic Theological Association.