In the past decades anti-feminist and anti-gender alliances were established by religious and secular actors. Religious anti-feminism and anti-genderism support the imagination that all religion and spirituality is reactionary in terms of gender constructions. In this lecture, I will look to the 'other' side of these political struggles and argue for an alliance building between secular and spiritual/religious feminists. I start my argument with insights into research of feminist religious studies scholars. Feminist religious research is also shaped by methodological dilemmas concerning the concept of 'lived religion' and the possibility of critique. In a second part, I will go back to research on spiritual feminists. I will exemplify how some of them deconstruct gender constructions. Feminists in my examples do so from a different epistemological basis that is neither material nor discursive but spiritual, which is challenging to secular/atheist feminists. In a third and last part, I will bring the different strands together and I argue that connections might be possible, nevertheless. - RELIGION IN DIALOGUE WITH POLITICS AND GENDER -