The Rev. Paul Mariani, S.J.

Paul Mariani is a Jesuit priest and the Edmund Campion, S.J., Endowed Professor of History at Santa Clara University. He is the author of Church Militant: Bishop Kung and Catholic Resistance in Communist Shanghai (Harvard, 2011), which explores church-state conflict in the early years of the People’s Republic of China. He also co-edited People, Communities and the Catholic Church in China (Palgrave Macmillan, forthcoming).

His articles have appeared in the Review of Religion and Chinese Society, the Journal of Church and State, The Catholic Historical Review, Studies in World Christianity, and the Encyclopedia of Christianity in the Global South. He is currently working on a book on the Shanghai Catholic community in the early reform era. He has a B.A. from Harvard, an M.A. from Fordham, an M.Div. from the Jesuit School of Theology at Berkeley, and a Ph.D. from the University of Chicago. He also does sacramental ministry with the Chinese Catholic community.