“…That is, fundamentalists are shaping a new reality, not restoring the old one (see also Pollack et al 2022). Variations of fundamentalism that attempt to master the world, then, represent not so much a movement of those striving to restore the traditional social structures destroyed during modernization processes, but a "political religion" (Hovorun 2021;Mitrofanova 2005). Therefore, Mitrofanova proposes to distinguish between fundamentalism and "political religion" where the first understanding means using concepts of the past to change modernity, while the latter means using modernity to change concepts of the past (Mitrofanova 2005, pp.…”