Prof. Latif TOKAT
Prof. Latif TOKAT
Religious Philosophy

Studies on Religious Symbolism, Existentialist Theology, Art and Religion Relation

latif.tokat@asbu.edu.tr
+90 312 596 47 69

Head of the Deparment of Philosophy and Religious Sciences

"Our age is an age in which God and mortality are forgotten" M. Heidegger
He has done studies on religious language and religious symbolism.
With his book existentialist theology he draws attention to the existential dimension of theology.
He is the author of one of the most important philosophical problems of our time, the meaning of life.
He studies on the relationship between aesthetics and art with God, Being, religion and metaphysics
Curriculum Vitae and Publications
Biography
He graduated from Faculty of Theology of Selçuk University in 1989, after that he worked as a teacher for a while.
He completed his master's degree in the field of The Philosophy of Religion with the thesis titled the problem of freedom in theist existentialism.
He started his PhD at Dokuz Eylül University in 1996, in the field of the philosophy of religion. His thesis was on religious symbolism.
He worked as a research assistant at Karadeniz Technical University and as a faculty member at Recep Tayyip Erdoğan University.
He worked as the Head of the Department of Philosophy and Religious Studies at the same university.
In 2012, he was in Chicago for three months with a scholarship to do research on "Religion in American World View".
In 2015, he stayed in London for six weeks to do some research.
Latif Tokat, who works in the field of Philosophy of Religion,
focused on comparative studies especially in the fields of philosophy and theology, both in his doctorate and after his doctorate.
His published books and articles have presented papers in international and national scientific meetings.
Research Interests 
Systematic Islamic thought, systematic theology, the relationship between aesthetics and religion,
the meaning of history, religious epistemology, philosophical-religious pluralism, the possibility of secularism.
Courses Taught
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