Explaining and examining the epistemological factors an function of new religious movements.

The subject of the emergence of the modern religious movements has drawn the attention of religious sociologists since the decade 1970.

Some insist on the emergence of the

above mentioned ethics after the second world war while others concentrate on the emergence of modern spirituality after this decade which coincides with the anti-cultural movement in the western world.

Considering new religious movements in modern times as a function depending on epistemological(philosophical)variables and epistemological (sociological)function the hypothesis of the emergence of modern spirituality after declination of metaphysics in modern philosophies a confrontation between science religion globalization modernity and secularism seems likely.

The inquiry ahead by examining and reviewing the causes behind the emergence intends to answer this question “what factors caused the emergence of modern religious movements”.

To answer this question theoretical foundations were first studied and researched.

They were then classified as epistemological factors and function to analyze and study them.

In the next step by limiting philosophical factors to the delivery of metaphysics and the conflict between science and religion it was shown that the reduction of religion from historical and traditional definition to conventional religiosity indicates the elimination of elements of trans physics of religion following new philosophies and empirical scientism.

In the next step the sociological causes were discussed. Modernity and secularism by fluidizing and secularizing phenomena have changed religion from a substantive definition to a non-essential and reductionist phenomenon. And it has been shown that globalization by eliminating conflicting elements and considering the common components of religions brought about a situation for the elimination of the institutional and ritual dimensions of of religion.