TOPLUMSAL BİR PROTESTO: YENİ DİNÎ HAREKETLER.

New religious movements in almost all societies, especially in the USA and Western countries, are attracting attention with their rapid increase day by day. New religious movements are classified according to their origins, singleness or doubleness, and their view of the world. As E. Durkheim pointed out, the cause of one social event is another social event. As a social protest movement, many factors such as social, cultural, religious, economic can be mentioned in manifestation of new religious movements. Secularism, modernism, postmodernism, laicism, economy, globalization, social change, lack of religious knowledge etc. are the dominant concepts that are directly related to the new religious movements. In a different way, there is an extremely intricate and complex causal relationship between these phenomena and the emergence of new religious movements. Considering that these relations take place within the principle of mutual interaction, it is understood that the issue is extremely comprehensive and pushes the boundaries of research in this aspect. For this reason, only a few of the factors mentioned in our study have been pointed out. Factors such as modernism, postmodernism, secularism, globalization, exclusivity, inclusiveness, religious pluralism, social change, a sense of deprivation, laicity, economics, indifference to religion and lack of religious knowledge among them were focused on and the necessary discussions were made. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]