ABSTRACT
This chapter will examine religiosity and spirituality in the context of social work. Religiosity has been roughly defined by Hill and Hood (1999: 5) as ‘phenomena that include some relevance to traditional institutionalized searches to acknowledge and maintain some relationship with the transcendent’, while spirituality is defined as ‘that most human of experiences that seeks to transcend self and find meaning and purpose through connection with others, nature, and/or a Supreme Being, which may or may not involve religious structures or traditions’ (Buck 2006: 289).
