Riaz Hassan is Australian Research Council Professorial Fellow and Emeritus Professor in the Department of Sociology, Flinders University in Adelaide. In his academic career spaning over 40 years he has conducted research in a number of areas including sociology of housing, sociology of suicide, organizational culture and Muslim societies. He has just completed a 10 year multi-country study of Muslim religiosity in which he has explored key aspects of Islamic consciousness. The findings from this study have been published in, Faithlines: Muslim Conceptions of Islam and Society and Inside Muslim Minds: Understanding Islamic Consciousness. He is now conducting research on Suicide Terrorism: The Use of Life as Weapon. His other publications include: Singapore: Society in Transition, ed; Families in Flats; A Way of Dying; Suicide Explained: The Australian Experience; The Cambridge Handbook of Social Sciences in Australia, co-editor with Ian McAllister and S. Dowrick; Local and Global: Social Transformation in Southeast Asia. He has taught at the Flinders University, National University of Singapore, Gadjah Mada University, University of California Los Angeles and Yale University. He is a Fellow of the Academy of the Social Sciences in Australia.