At the beginning of this meeting, Hojjatul Islam wal Muslimeen Dr. Hafez noted the history of the emergence of New Religious Movements. He said that these movements emerged in the 1970s, and this emergence coincided with the anti-cultural movement in America and then in Europe which was caused by intense social tensions such as the confrontation between the new and the old generation and the emergence of abnormal life styles. Because of such conditions, meaninglessness became common in the world, and the rise of and tendency towards modern religious movementsRead More