This paper is an approach to the debate on the possible existence of an elective affinity between the study of Social Sciences and the macro-process of secularization. Secularization here is understood as the gradual, non-linear, historically and geographically determined loss of the comprehensiveness of religious discourse, which is expressed, among other factors, by the separation and autonomization of the social spheres and the consequent privatization of religion. To achieve such a goal, a group of Social Scientists from the state of Paraíba, graduated between 1980 and 2005, were chosen as the empirical space of analysis. By means of in-depth interviews their life histories were recovered with a focus on their religious views and prac...