Before we explore the importance of rituals in religion and spirituality, we must first outline these two terms. Religion in a whole is best described as a set of beliefs, code, ethics, rituals, and practices, systematically organized around a doctrine and shared by a group of people (Hodge, 2011). Spirituality, on the other hand, is described as “A personal quest for understanding answers to ultimate question about life, about meaning and about relationships to the sacred or transcendent which may (or may not) lead to or arise from the development of religious rituals” (Sarah Gehlert, Teri Browne, 2006 P: 284). In brief overview, religion is an organized system of practices and beliefs while spirituality is a focus on spiritual things which…