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==Academic career==
Clarke served as Professor Emeritus of the History and Sociology of Religion at [[King's College, University of London]], having taught there from 1994–2003, the Director of the Centre for New Religions at King's College, and a professorial member of the Faculty of Theology at the [[University of Oxford]] (since 2003); earlier in his career (1974–1978) he was Professor of African History at the [[University of Ibadan]], [[Nigeria]].<ref name=debretts /><ref>Sundermeier, Theo. ''The individual and community in African traditional religions'', LIT Verlag, ISBN 9783894739379</ref>
Clarke inaugurated a series of annual conferences on new religious movements at King's, which brought together academics from a variety of backgrounds. These conferences eventually evolved into the "INFORM" (Information Network Focus on Religious Movements) seminars.
Clarke is the founding editor of the ''[[Journal of Contemporary Religion]]'', established by the Centre for New Religions in 1985 (the journal appeared under the title ''Religion Today'' until 1995).<ref>Arweck, Elisabeth. ''Researching new religious movements: responses and redefinitions'', p. ix, Routledge 2006, ISBN 9780415277556</ref><ref>Stark, Rodney; Finke, Roger. ''Acts of faith: explaining the human side of religion''. University of California Press 2000, p. 16, ISBN 9780520222021</ref><ref name=ClarkeNew>Clarke, Peter Bernard. ''New Religions in Global Perspective: A Study of Religious Change in the Modern World'', Routledge 2006, p. 46, ISBN 9780415257480</ref>
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