Dr. Vassilios Adrahtas teaches Islamic Studies at Western Sydney University and Ancient Greek Religion and Myth at the University of NSW. He holds a PhD in Sociology of Religion from the Panteion University of Social and Political Sciences, Athens, Greece, and a PhD in Studies in Religion from the University of Sydney. He has been teaching at several universities both in Australia and overseas since 2002. His specialization is in the political phenomenology of early Christianity, patristics, byzantine philosophy, the history of religions, and Indigenous Australian studies. He has authored and co-edited more than ten books.