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Indexada en Religion and Philosophy Collection (EBSCO); Humanities Index; The Philosopher´s Index, Philosophy Research Index, PhilPapers, ProQuest 5000, ProQuest Research Library; Social Sciences Abstracts, Social Sciences Index, SocINDEX; entre otras This article considers contemporary dynamics that are important for understanding gender and sexuality beyond secularism as an ideological construction. In particular, it offers an analysis of the ways in which the two main sectors politicizing gender and sexuality have mutated. After four decades of antagonism, feminist and sexual minorities? movements and patriarchal religious sectors have been mutually affected. In the process of sustaining their opposite agendas both sectors have been partially reshaped, weakening the idea of the religious and the secular as an unbridgeable dichotomy. On the one hand, at least partially, patriarchal religious sectors have mirrored the politics of feminist and sexual minorities in their defense of the family. A strategic mutation has been taking place whereby religious activism takes the form of civil society organizations and secular discourses. This reactive politicization, not fully captured by current approaches, offers for analysis a phenomenon that takes place in the frontiers between the religious and the secular. On the other hand, some feminists and sexual minorities are embracing religious identities as a path toward gender and sexuality liberation. Muslim Feminists, Pro-abortion Catholics or Gay Evangelicals are examples of the many ways that religious identities are being politicized in order to make traditional faiths compatible with the demands of feminists and sexual minorities. Thus, the concept of religious dissidence is proposed in order to comprehend the gendering and sexualizing of traditional religious identities as a significant political phenomenon.

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