Authors

• Prof. Dr. Ozcan Gungor

  Ankara Yildirim Beyazit University, Ankara, Türkiye

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0775-023X

  Author Biography

  Özcan Güngör (Prof. - AYBU) was born born in 1977 in Çorum/Alaca. Güngör completed his primary school and memorized the Qur’an in his village and his secondary education in Çorum IHL in 1996. In 2001, he graduated from Ankara University Faculty of Divinity. He worked as a coordinator in very important national and international projects, as a commentator in newspapers and TV channels, and as a researcher in countries such as the USA, Germany, and Hungary. He has been working at the Presidency of Religious Affairs (2001-2010), Atatürk University (2010-2013), and currently as the Head of the Department of Philosophy and Religious Sciences at Ankara Yıldırım Beyazit University. He is currently the editor of two journals (Journal of Analytic Divinity and Democracy Platform) and has organized 6 international congresses so far. He is also the manager of the Analytic Divinity Center website www.andcenter.org. He has published 15 books, more than 40 articles, papers, and book chapters in his field. His research interests include religious groups, especially Alevism-Bektashism-Jaferism, immigration, identity, the Turkish Community in the USA, Family, Aging, and Values. Güngör is married with three children and speaks English and Arabic.