ABSTRACT
The discussion throughout the previous chapters has returned repeatedly to the central role played by the images of “the orthodox” and “the secular” in the construction of traditionist identity. Traditionists utilize these images as dual anchors of identity, two intimate “significant others”, faced with which one defines oneself. As such, these identity images prove to be crucial in the investigation into the array of meanings associated with traditionist identity. Such an investigation is the subject of the current chapter.
