RESEARCH IN SPIRITUALITY, RELIGION, AND WORK: WALKING THE LINE BETWEEN RELEVANCE AND LEGITIMACY.

Abstract

While spirituality and religion in work (SRW) as an inquiry field has been gaining interest in both the business world as well as in the popular press, it has only recently been recognized by the academic community as a viable research arena. Beyond the establishment of the Academy of Management's Management, Spirituality, and Religion interest group and several academic journals' special issue focus, SRW's relevance to important research questions and legitimacy within the larger academic community as contributing scholarly work may not necessarily follow. Part of the problem is that SRW concepts and variables of interest-such as faith, spirit, soul, cosmos, religiosity, and love-resist being measured and analyzed with