Guest editors’ introduction to the Special Symposium Edition on Spirituality

Greg Nolan and William West reflect on the contemporary impact of rapid global social change on individual and collective cultural contexts of mental health, faith and spiritual sense-making. These issues remain of great importance as Western Europe, Turkey, Greece, Jordan and other countries experience the challenge of what is seen as mass migration of people from Syria, North Africa and elsewhere. The conflicts that give rise to this migration is very often framed and expressed in religious terms which then often leads to a culture of suspicion between faith groups in many countries globally. We link these thoughts with brief synopses of contributors’ research findings and perspectives in this Symposium Edition on Spirituality.