Sabino Acquaviva

{{Short description|Italian sociologist and writer (1927–2015)}}

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| birth_place = Padua, Italy

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| death_place = Padua, Italy

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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 {{cite encyclopedia |last1=Dell’Arti|first1=Giorgio|last2=Parrini|first2=Massimo|title=Acquaviva, Sabino|encyclopedia=Catalogo dei viventi|year=2008|publisher=Marsilio|location=Venezia|page=19|ISBN= 978-8831795999}} and president of the School of Political Science of University of Padua between 1977 and 1978.{{cite web|url=http://www.repubblica.it/cultura/2015/12/30/news/morto_il_sociologo_sabino_acquaviva-130386128/|title=E'morto il sociologo Sabino Acquaviva, preside a Padova negli anni di piombo|last=Leggo dopo|first=Lo|date=2015-12-30|accessdate=2016-01-01|work=La Repubblica}} 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.

Acquaviva died on 29 December 2015 in his hometown of Padua, Italy.{{cite web|url=http://www.ilgazzettino.it/nordest/padova/morto_88_anni_sabino_acquaviva_studioso_di_sociologia_religione-1454043.html|title=Morto a 88 anni Sabino Acquaviva Studioso di sociologia della religione|work=Il Gazzettino|date=2015-12-30|accessdate=2016-01-01}}