El triunfo del dios mortal. Una lectura hobbesiana de la secularización.

The article tracks the elements that in The Leviathan of Thomas Hobbes state the role of religion in the modern State. Two interpretations would come off Hobbes' work: the first one the State appears like a perfect machine that replaces the historical and cultural role of the Church, specifically its hegemony on the public stage and the exigency of loyalty to the individuals. In the second, State requires an absolute and unquestionable sovereignty over the religious stage, and to achieve this, it subordinates religion to civil power. Nevertheless, the two routes lead to the same destiny: the prevalence of political power over the ecclesiastical or religious sphere, in a complex relation that is sustained from modernity to our times.