Jayeel Cornelio is Associate Professor and the Director of the Development Studies Program at the Ateneo de Manila University. He is also an associate editor of Social Sciences and Missions (Brill). The major theme of his scholarship is religious change in the Philippines. His writings have appeared in various journals including Social Compass, Diogenes, the Review of Faith and International Affairs, and Religion, State and Society. He is the author of Being Catholic in the Contemporary Philippines: Young People Reinterpreting Religion (Routledge, 2016). His opinion writings have been published by Rappler, New Mandala, Christianity Today, and the Union of Catholic Asian News. His new research is on young people and the Marawi siege. Assoc Prof Cornelio has held visiting posts at the Chinese University of Hong Kong and Lancaster University and was a postdoctoral fellow at the Max Planck Institute for the Study of Religious and Ethnic Diversity.