Religious experience is fundamentally structured by repetition. This paper deconstructs such experience - following Judith Butler - as a "stylized repetition of acts". Identity and faith are not expressions of a prior internal essence but are performatively constituted through the reactivation of rituals, gestures, and prayers that cite historically sedimented norms.
Central to this process is Jacques Derrida's concept of iterability: for a religious act to be "successful" within the ecclesial system, it must follow an identifiable "code" or iterable grid. However, iterability structurally implies "repetition + alterity", as every citation undergoes a shift in a new context. While religious institutions use repetition to enforce a specific field of intelligibility - marking mindbodies that do not fit the norm as "unreal" or "unlivable" - this very structure opens the space for subversion.
The paper investigates how marginalized subjects use "subversive citations" to disrupt the "ecclesial panopticon" (De La Torre). In this framework, authentic religious experience does not have to happen in the perfect copy of the (intelligible) sacred; it occurs in the rupture of repetition - the "existential WTF" (Bettcher) where the institutional code fails for the subject and the world loses its self-evidence.
Ultimately, reclaiming these "unintelligible" ruptures as authoritative power-knowledge constitutes a practice of "epistemological insubordination" (Preciado) that destabilizes fixed hierarchies of (in)equality and transforms the church into a collection of inhabitable world_spaces where difference is not only tolerated but the engine of collective liberation.