Abstract:

First of all, we believe that it is correct to give a brief information about the writer's resume. Kemal Ataman was born in 1968 in the district of Çaykara in Trabzon. He completed his first and secondary education in the districts of Trabzon of Of and Çaykara. In 1992 he graduated from the Faculty of Theology at the University of Uludağ. In 1994 he was appointed as a research officer in the field of religious sociology at the same faculty. At The Catholic University of America, Washington, DC completed its master's degree in 1998 and its doctorate in 2002. From 2009 to 2011 he served as a guest faculty member at the Faculty of Cultural Sciences of the University of Bayreuth in Germany. Ataman, which, in addition to the writing of articles, books and books published in various languages, is the chief editor of the international magazine Theology Studies with Turgay Gündüz, is currently continuing to be a faculty member at the Faculty of Theology of the University of Marmara.