Martin Riesebrodt

Contests Asad - Formations of the Secular on his denial of the concept of religion
Uses a perspectivist approach that he calls ‘referential legitimation’
Through competition, borrowings, identifications, and syncretisms, religion gets recgonized as religion by its religious peers
Agrees with the Durkheimian point of view that religion is a response to crisis, contingency and the limits of human capacities, and the sacrality of society is of limited generalizability.