Acknowledgments
First author: I express great appreciation to Senior Editor Ralph W. Hood, Jr.— my teacher, mentor, research colleague, and, most especially, the best of friends since 1991. It was he who placed great confidence in our ability to pursue this project and with long patience helped see it through to fruition.
Second author: I want to express special thanks to Prof. Detlef Pollack for providing the outstanding opportunity to research on fundamentalism in his team that eventually brought me into the position of the leader of the research project “Religious Fundamentalism” from 2019–2021. Therefore, the here- presented contribution was also partially funded by the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG, German Research Foundation) under Germany’s Excellence Strategy—EXC 2060 “Religion and Politics. Dynamics of Tradition and Innovation” (390726036). Both the senior author and I offer our abundant thanks to Alina Birkmeyer and Özge Aras who contributed, with greatest care and commitment, to the editing and formatting of the manuscript.