Neotraditions can be invented outright with the purpose of creation of a new group identity thus being useful in the times of rapid changes in the society.
As an example, Eric Hobsbawn offers the new Scottish national identity centered around Ossian, kilts, and bagpipes.
Traditional identity is something that one can rely on in times of crisis, providing an easily accessible set of rules for living and a medium for connection with others.
[4] Matthew Lenoe and Terry Martin made the deep advances in research of the neotraditionalism in application to the Soviet history.
[5] When discussing the politics of religion, radical neotraditionalism is used as a more neutral term to describe the non-Protestant fundamentalism.