Movement focus on state power is a secular-state response, not ideology

Evidence

The main point I underline is that Islamism’s preoccupation with state power is the result not of its commitment to nationalist ideas but of the modern nation-state’s enforced claim to constitute legitimate social identities and arenas. No movement that aspires to more than mere belief or inconsequential talk in public can remain indifferent to state power in a secular world. — Talal Asad, Formations of the Secular, 971

Categorization

• XREF: Corroborates Cooper: political form (the secular nation-state) structurally forces religious movements toward power regardless of their espoused aims. — connects to: States’ rights functions as a political slogan, not a settled ideology. — Lawrence M. Friedman and Grant M. Hayden, American Law: An Introduction, 699