ABSTRACT
This Coda summarizes the findings of Chapters 1, 2 and 3 in the shape of a Weberian ideal type of modernist religious reformers. This ideal type is a condensation of different features, each of which applies to some, but usually not all, of the seven reformers discussed. Thus, the ideal-typical reformer constructed here does not correspond in a one-to-one manner with any of the historical characters discussed in the book; its function is merely to highlight the uniqueness of the cross-cultural phenomenon dealt with here. The features refer to both the lives (for example, educational, journalistic and associational activities) and the ideas (for example, an instrumentalist understanding of religion) of the reformers.
