the most fundamental religious question of them all: ‘Is there a God?’ Although the different faiths clearly refer to a common human experience of the spiritual, they seem to say such different things about it. Is the individual human self of unique value and significance (so say Judaism, Christianity and Islam) or is it, in fact, an illusion (so says Buddhism) or is it recycled through reincarnation (so says Hinduism)? Is suffering something to be accepted or avoided? And so on. The conclusion seems