Already in the 1980s, it was predicted that religion would have a future in China again. Helwig Schmidt-Glintzer provides insight into how this prediction is confirmed in today's China, not only by thoroughly presenting the current religious situation and the specific relationship between society, religion, and politics, but also by showcasing the entire diversity of cultural traditions and forms of belief. This reveals the spiritual-social and moral foundational structure of Chinese culture and its development up to the recent present. In China, the concept of God and the forms of religious rituals remain fundamentally important for individual self-understanding as well as for the functioning of society. It is a peculiarity of this multi-ethnic state that no doctrine has been able to claim absolute validity.