Embodied spiritualities: Beliefs, practices, and contributions of women’s spiritualities in Latin America

The analysis of women and their ways of experiencing embodied spirituality has revealed novel forms in the configurations of believing, practicing, and belonging to spiritual communities. Through the systematization of ethnographic and multi-sited explorations conducted in women’s circles in Mexico, this article reflects on how the rise of what is now known as feminine spirituality has contributed to shaping forms of belief, practice, and belonging to spiritual communities outside institutional margins. It analyzes the impact of feminine spirituality and its approach to understanding contemporary spiritualities in Latin America, as well as some of its challenges, themes, and key issues. It shows how women’s spiritual expressions generate epistemic and theoretical-methodological questions, but also allow for the articulation of socio-anthropological approaches to spirituality and religion with other perspectives of social analysis.