Modern or modernist ideologies, based on tbe understanding, which
now runs almost as a consensus among the thinkers, replace traditional
religions and are considered secular pieties. Nevertheless, compared
with other pieties or allegiances, which attempt at replacing them, these
secular pieties are faced with problems, inadequacies and difficulties.
Most important among these difficulties is the inability of these
ideologies to create social movements and to mobilize people
politically, that is, to have extensive and sustained influence among
them, and to make people willing to sacrifice.
There are certain characteristics attributed to nationalistic secular
ideologies. It is upon these characteristics that there is a discussion on
power of these ideologies in creating social movements, and on potency
of their historical influence.
This article, through investigating the characteristic of nationalistic
ideologies, argues that such a conception of secular ideologies is
erroneous, in that instead of reasoning for its weakness.