ABSTRACT
Analyzing spirituality in terms of gender means to pay attention to the ways in which individuals with different gender identities (male, female, lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer, intersexual, etc.) describe and experience their spiritual beliefs and practices. A gender approach to spirituality makes visible the power structures and inequalities of patriarchal discourses inherent in Western thinking, as well as in other cultural systems worldwide, that tend to portray the male as the norm. Such an approach also allows us to deconstruct dichotomous ways of thinking based on the male/female divide. It strives towards gender equality, the respect for sexual differences and the recognition of corporeality and sexuality as dimensions that are not opposed or excluded from the spiritual dimension.
