In his latest book, „Theorie der Befreiung", the philosopher Christoph Menke points out a structural analogy between asthetic and religious experience: both are experiences of a radical liberation, for they open up a non-subjective and that means a non-habit-driven mode of self- and worldrelation. Strictly personal on the one hand, this experience of liberation is fundamentally political at the same time, as it opens up the possibility of social transformation. In my speech, I want to take up this transformative understanding of religious experience and develop it further with the means of an asthetic of performativity. The guiding intuition is, anlong with Bruno Latour, that what makes religion still meaningfull today is not the preservation of a specific doctrine or of moral prescriptions, but the transportation of transformation. Religion saves, it transforms death into life. The political question, that is the unresolved question at the end of Menkes astehtic theory of liberation as well, is, how this salvatoric transformations can be translated in a salvatoric practice.