Our Faculty Member’s Project Has Been Awarded Support Under the TÜBİTAK 3005 Program

The project titled “A Qualitative Study on Spiritual Healing Practices: Orientations, Religious References, and Concerns of Religious Legitimacy Among Practitioners and Religious Individuals,” prepared under the leadership of Assoc. Prof. Dr. Bilal Toprak, Vice Dean of our Faculty of Theology, has been granted support within the scope of the TÜBİTAK 3005 – Research Projects for Innovative Solutions in Social and Human Sciences Support Program.

The project aims to examine the motivations of religious individuals in Türkiye who turn to spiritual healing practices, as well as the practitioners who employ religious references while conducting such practices. It further seeks to explore their relationship with religious life and the meanings they attribute to these practices.

The project is supervised by Prof. Dr. Muhammed Kızılgeçit from Atatürk University. The project’s research team consists of: Res. Asst. Burak Pekcan (Religious Education),
Res. Asst. Muhammed Sadık Özbek (Hadith), Res. Asst. Muhammed Tayyib Barışan (Islamic Philosophy), Res. Asst. Şehide Kelek (Guidance and Psychological Counseling),
Res. Asst. Zühal Yıldız (Hadith),  Res. Asst. Ebru Barış (Islamic Law), Res. Asst. Zübeyir Çetin (Kalam), Res. Asst. Mehmet Akbaş (Islamic History and Arts) and Res. Asst. Handan Zülal Ersoy (Psychology of Religion).

In addition, two students from our University’s Graduate School, Department of Philosophy and Religious Sciences (Thesis Master’s Program), are taking part in the project as scholarship holders.

We congratulate our faculty member whose project has been deemed worthy of support by TÜBİTAK, and we wish continued success to the entire project team.