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Sabino Acquaviva (29 April 1927 – 29 December 2015) was an Italian sociologist. He was chair of the Department of Sociology between 1985 and 1988 ^[1] and president of the School of Political Science of University of Padua between 1977 and 1978.^[2] He was also visiting professor at All Souls College, Oxford and at the University of Nice, scriptwriter, and novelist. He is mostly well-known for his studies about secularization and the decline of religion in Western Europe.^[1]

Acquaviva died on 29 December 2015 in his hometown of Padua, Italy.^[3]