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Revision as of 13:31, 19 June 2010
Peter Bernard Clarke (born 25 October 1940) is a British scholar of religion and founding editor of the Journal of Contemporary Religion.[1]
Academic career
Clarke is 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 of 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.[2][1]
Clarke is the founding editor of the Journal of Contemporary Religion, first established in the 1980s as Religion Today.[3]
His publications include Japanese New Religions: In Global Perspective (2006, editor), New Religions in Global Perspective: A Study of Religious Change in the Modern World, the Encyclopedia of New Religious Movements (2005, editor), and The Oxford Handbook of the Sociology of Religion (2008, editor); he is also the author and editor of another 20 books and 100 scholarly articles.[4][5][1]
Clarke's research fields have spanned Islamic movements as well as new religions derived from African, African Brazilian and Japanese roots.[1][6]
Notes
- ^ a b c d Biography in Debrett's
- ^ Sundermeier, Theo. The individual and community in African traditional religions, LIT Verlag, ISBN 9783894739379
- ^ Arweck, Elisabeth. Researching new religious movements: responses and redefinitions, p. ix, Routledge 2006, ISBN 9780415277556
- ^ Clarke, Peter B. (2006). New Religions in Global Perspective: A Study of Religious Change in the Modern World. Routledge. p. i. ISBN 978-0415-25747-3.
- ^ Clarke, Peter B. (2006). Encyclopedia of New Religious Movements. Routledge. p. i. ISBN 978-0-415-45383-7.
- ^ Weibel, Nadine. Weiblicher Blick- Männerglaube/ Religions D'hommes- Regards de Femmes: Beiträge zur Gender-Perspektive in den Religionen, Waxmann Verlag 2008, p. 193, ISBN 9783830919230