# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/hector-avalos
# Generated: 2026-08-13T04:44:54.724Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/hector-avalos"
name: "Hector Avalos"
slug: "hector-avalos"
description: "Hector Avalos was a professor of Religious Studies at Iowa State University, a cultural anthropologist, and the author of several books on religion. Avalos was an atheist and advocate of secular humanist ethics."
tagline: "Professor of Religious Studies/Iowa State University/author of several books about religion (1958–2021)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Hector_Avalos.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
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profileType:
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  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631"
birthDate: "1958-10-08"
deathDate: "2021-04-12"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
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  momentum:             1.805225653206651
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  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     35
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
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  country:  null
  category: null
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  - url: "https://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hector_Avalos"
    title: "Hector Avalos"
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  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/H%C3%A9ctor_%C3%81valos_(erudito)"
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    title: "هکتور آوالوس"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump