Religious Movements in the Contemporary United States

The present paper describes the vision and practice of different religious movements in the contemporary United States such as Moral Majority and Habitat for Humanity. This description is presented with a view that contemporary Indian debate on secularism and religion must be based upon informed understanding of the actual process of return of religion to the secular city in the western world, since much of our contemporary assumptions about secularism are based upon the Western models. The dynamics of religious movements in the contemporary United States challenges us to rethink our taken-for-granted assumption about the decline of religion with technological advancement. It also urges us to take the spiritual dimension within religion seriously, which ultimately helps us to make the distinction between religious fundamentalism and practical spirituality.