Background
Mariante, Benjamin Robert was born on October 7, 1934 in Sacramento. Son of Marion Franklin Joseph Mariante and Frances (Lasonio) O'Neil.
Sociology educator social science consultant
Mariante, Benjamin Robert was born on October 7, 1934 in Sacramento. Son of Marion Franklin Joseph Mariante and Frances (Lasonio) O'Neil.
Bachelor, San Luis Rey College, California, 1957. STB, Franciscan School Theology, Berkeley, California, 1961. Master of Arts, University San Francisco, 1967.
Doctor of Theology, Harvard University, 1976.
Social worker, St. Mary's Parish, Stockton, California, l962-64;
instructor, Franciscan School Theology, Santa Barbara, California, l964-66;
instructor, U. San Francisco, l966-67;
assistant Professor of English,, Bemidji (Minnesota) State University, l967-68;
director education, St.Thomas More Parish, Braintree, Massachusetts, l970-7l;
professor sociology, Stonehill College, North Easton, Massachusetts, l97l-;
coordinator foreign study, Stonehill College, North Easton, Massachusetts, l982-. Consultant Brockton (Massachusetts) Area Drug Program, l972-74, youth task force Federal District I, Boston, l975-77. Director Hyde Park (Massachusetts)-Stonehill College Education Project, l974-77.
Visiting professor religious studies U. Prince Edward Island (Canada), Charlottestown, l976, 78, 80. Visiting professor sociology University College, Dublin, Ireland, l984-85. Resident fellow Institute for Ecumenical and Cultural Research, Collegeville, Michigan, l974.
Research fellow Social Science Research Institute, U. Hawaii, Honolulu, l979. Coolidge fellow Harvard University, 1989.
Member International Sociological Association, Society for Science Study Religion, American Academy Religion, National Association Foreign Student Advisors, International Conference Sociology of Religion.
Married Ann Frances Serff, November 5, l967 (divorced l988). L child, Jonathan Paul Francis.