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.