"In order to be in peace, we must learn about all different religions in the world”. These are Dalai Lama’s words in the prologue of this book. Gellman and Hartman are willing to make religions understandable and, to achieve that, they start with the “big questions” that religions made, even before the great philosophers did.  In what way are we supposed to live? Is one of these questions. Or is there anything after death?

Judaism, Christianity, Islam, Buddhism, Hinduism, Shintoism… each of them gives each own answer.  Knowing about them is something more than a question of culture. Knowing about other religions also means a better understanding of those people that follow them. How do you spell God? is an intelligent book that is also amusing and with a good sense of humour, but is, above all, a manual about tolerance.