MBAIDIGUIM DJIKOLDIGAM

The religious issue permeates the entire intellectual work of the English philosopher. A witness to one of the most notable political and religious conflicts of modernity, the English Civil War, Hobbes makes limiting the political claims of religious institutions one of the priorities of his political philosophy. The relationship between politics and religion is analyzed by the author in his three main works of political philosophy: Elements of Law, On the Citizen, Leviathan, and also in Behemoth. The theme of religion appears in the whole of his political thought as a central piece, without which it would be difficult to understand the other theories. The research aims to study religion in Hobbes based on the limits that the author imposes on religion within his political project. The objective of this work is to show that Hobbesian political philosophy, by drawing boundaries for religion within politics, gives politics its autonomy, and consequently the civil government, that is, the State, sovereignty, to actually exercise the function for which it was instituted, that is, to maintain peace.