We argue that it is essential to differentiate between individual preferences for having spiritual and religious practices at the workplace and studies that, using well-established tools drawn from the social-sciences, research the role of spirituality in organizations and work. The present JMSR Special Issue (SI) is the first to bring together several papers that address the confluence of affect and spirituality in the context of work, management and organizations. One of the aims of this SI is to showcase five different approaches to systematically investigating spirituality and affect in organizational context.