 Turning more briefly to some additional features of Schleiermacher’s philosophy of religion in On Religion: He recognizes the validity of a potentially endless multiplicity of forms of religion there, and strongly advocates religious toleration. However, he also arranges the various types of religion in a hierarchy, with animism at the bottom, polytheism in the middle, and monotheism or otherwise monistic religions at the top. This hierarchy is understandable given his fundamental neo-Spinozism.