9. The Role of Gender in Intercultural Ethics

The article explores the significance of gender as a category and of a gender-sensitive anthropology within intercultural theological ethics. To this end, the significance of gender for theological ethics in general is first explored and a look is taken at its reception as an elementary aspect of the reality of human life within the discipline of. In a further step, it is shown that this is particularly important in the field of intercultural theological ethics due to the socio-cultural embeddedness of gender concepts. Therefore, the interweaving of cultural and religious perceptions in relation to gender and sexuality is outlined on the basis of different authors from the fields of ethics, theology, political and social sciences. Finally, requirements for a gender sensitive intercultural theological ethics are explored and elaborated. To this end, intersectionality, postcoloniality and the paradigm shift towards an inclusive, holistic, realistic and multidimensional anthropology are discussed. The anthropological implications are outlined along the lines of Ivone Gebara and Maria Clara Lucchetti Bingemer. In a final step, it is shown that these very requirements are necessary for doing justice to people as individuals.