Abstract
The aim of this study, The State and Religion in Hegel's Philosophy, is to explore the issue of the modern secular state and its relation to religion in the philosophy of G. W.
F. Hegel.
Before turning attention to this thinker two other concepts of the relationship between the state and religion, the one of Thomas Hobbes and the one of John Locke, will be introduced briefly. The question of the relationship between the state and religion in Hegel's philosophy, which is the focus in the main part of this work, is discussed with regard to Hegel's concept of freedom.
It is this very concept, which makes it possible to show both the mutual interconnection as well as the necessity of the differentiation between these two manifestations of the spirit, i.e. religion and the state, and to explain the tension, which remains present between them. It is claimed that this tension does not need to be understood only as endangering freedom but also as essential to freedom.