Contemporary sociologist list

José Casanova is a sociologist of religion whose research focuses on globalization, religions, and secularization.
He is a professor at Georgetown University and senior fellow at the Berkley Center for Religion, Peace, and World Affairs.
He holds a Bachelor of Arts degree in philosophy from the Seminario Metropolitano, a Master of Arts degree from the University of Innsbruck in theology, and Master of Arts and Doctor of Philosophy degrees in sociology from the New School for Social Research.
During 2017 he was the Kluge Chair in Countries and Cultures of the North at the US Library of Congress' John W.
Kluge Center.
His work Public Religions in the Modern World has been translated into several languages, including Japanese, Arabic, and Turkish.
In 2012, Casanova was awarded the Theology Prize from the Salzburger Hochschulwochen in recognition of his life-long achievement in the field of theology.

This is a list of Brazilians, people in some way notable that were either born in Brazil or immigrants to Brazil, grouped by their area of notability.

Irreligion, which may include deism, agnosticism, ignosticism, anti-religion, atheism, skepticism, ietsism, spiritual but not religious, freethought, anti-theism, apatheism, non-belief, pandeism, secular humanism, non-religious theism, pantheism, panentheism, and New age, varies in the countries around the world.
According to reports from the Worldwide Independent Network/Gallup International Association's (WIN/GIA) four global polls: in 2005, 77% were a religious person and 4% were convinced atheists; in 2012, 23% were not a religious person and 13% were convinced atheists; in 2015, 22% were not a religious person and 11% were convinced atheists; and in 2017, 25% were not a religious person and 9% were convinced atheists.
According to the Pew Research Centre in 2012, 16% of the world is religiously unaffiliated, which include atheists, agnostics and people who do not identify with any particular religion in surveys; of that overall category, many may still hold some religious beliefs and some engage in religious practices as well.