Putting God in Place! Religious continuities and mutations in classic and diasporic communities

Sociologists of religion have often focused on spiritual experiences within religious or quasi-religious organizations, which obscures possible traces of individual, collective religious and/or spiritual experiences, expressions and encounters in secular terrains and other perceptibly non-religious settings. Also less probed is whether, how and to what extent individuals consider such experiences and expressions to have an impact on their overall religious/spiritual perspectives and life encounters, or in fact what functions they perform. The author provides some critical reflections on Wendy Cadge’s and Deirdre Meintel’s articles in the present issue, interrogating how and to what extent they chart new empirical pathways and direct interest towards the sociology of religion and spirituality in workplaces in an era of increasing individualization in Euro-American societies and in non-Western contexts.