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Religion and spirituality in the workplace: Considerations of culture, expression and leadership in business

We are very excited to bring you this special issue of Culture and Religion, which focuses on the intersection of global business practices, religion and the unique role that culture plays in the international marketplace. This volume is a multidisciplinary effort, and the writings herein will be valuable to a range of individuals, including government officials, managers, scholars and students. We would like to thank the Assistant Editor of Culture and Religion, Dr Paul-François Tremlett, of the School of Oriental and African Studies of the University of London, UK for his kind invitation to serve as guest editors of this issue. We would also like to thank the Editor of Culture and Religion, Dr Malory Nye, of the Al-Maktoum Institute Dundee, UK, for the opportunity to showcase this important work. This issue has been developing for nearly five years. It was borne out of the desire to study the impacts of spirituality in the world of business. It originated with our research detailed in the first piece, titled ‘Linking spirituality to workplace benefits: An analysis of the Brazilian Candomblé’. This piece provides an examination of the significance of the practice of religion known as Candomblé in Salvador, Brazil, on working residents of the city and its local vicinity. The practice’s impetus to spiritual effects and the subsequent workplace benefits are explored. The second article also focuses on non-Western spirituality. It is titled ‘The place of self-actualisation in workplace spirituality: Evidence from Sri Lanka’ by Mario Fernando and Venkataraman Nilakant. It proffers empirical evidence on the value of spirituality in workplace interactions and decisionmaking among Sri Lankan business leaders. Furthermore, it offers suggestions for leaders in multiple cultural settings to achieve self-actualisation while at the same time remaining true to their own spirituality. The third article, ‘Determinants of religious expression in the workplace’ by Ericka R. Lawrence and James King, focuses on the workplace situations that workers perceive promote the likelihood of the display of religious expression in the US workplace. It emphasises the importance of organisational culture for employees’ religious expressions at work.