This study focuses on the traditional religious institutions and their actors’ strategies to understand how they have been maintaining their influences on their local areas and what methods they have been using to help them maintain their traditional authority and reputation. Seydas who are common in the everyday life of Eastern and Southeastern Anatolia of Turkey were analyzed in the context of ‘functional charisma’ with reference to Max Weber’s works. While seydas who have functional charisma are trying to have a dignity and authority with a dominance in their limited and local areas, they also seek to discover new ways to gain new followers in the different regions of Turkey. In this context, seydas present themselves where religious arguments are intensely widespread in social, religious and traditional activities such as on reconciliation, wedding and funeral. Nonetheless, the most important and fertile ground for them to build their legitimacy renders visible when they become mediator to solve problems of the opposing sides in their own locality This is where seydas are required to have the capacity and competence to show their own leadership to overcome and/or meet the requirements of the local people. In this aspect, an interpretivist-ethnographic-qualitative study was undertaken by using semi-structured interview with 30 seydas. The findings show that seydas do not only consider themselves as a source of religious insights but also mediators to solve various local problems, facilitators to resolve issues between the state and the local people and guides for the local people to cope with contractions of everyday life where traditions meet modern culture.