eng Oriental Scientific Publishing Company Biosciences Biotechnology Research Asia 0973-1245 2016-06-21 12 Spl.Edn.2 485 496 10.13005/bbra/2225 13012 article Jafar Hezarjaribi 1 Hasan Farahani 2 Department of Sociology, PhD and Professor of Sociology, AllamehTabatabaiUniversity, Tehran, Iran. Department of Sociology, PhD student in Sociology, AllamehTabatabaiUniversity, Tehran, Iran. Although religion has always played a role consolidate in the community and has led to the convergence of groups and sections of society, but new factions will lead to the creation of the religious divide in society, as well as deepening and intensification of the gap social. Hence, new sects are further away from the traditional religious organizations and official religion, as well as more religious divide in society. In this study, in terms of method is described and in terms of target is applied. The population of this study which is includes followers and believers active in emerging religious movements in Tehran. In this contextgroup aim of this study was selected from among the supporters of the two movement “Falun Dafa and ShourKeyhani” which are considered as the experimental group, that sum of these groups is the number of 51.087 people, that sample size based on Cochran formula calculated 400 people.Instruments measured in the present study were a questionnaire designed to assess the relationship, we used from Pearson correlation coefficients and to explain the impact of variables, we used to single and multivariate regression and path analysis. Summary results of the study prove that there is a significant correlation between the pattern of reference, being hegemonic political system and trends emerging religious movements. https://www.biotech-asia.org/vol12_nospl_edn2/investigation-the-social-and-political-factors-influencing-on-the-emerging-religious-movements-trends-case-study-falun-dafa-and-cosmic-consciousness/ Falun Dafa; ShourKeyhani; Movement; Trust; Legitimacy of the political system; Resistance identity; Reference pattern