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Peter Bernard Clarke (25 October 1940 – June 2011) was a British scholar of religion and founding editor of the ''Journal of Contemporary Religion''.〔(Biography ) in Debrett's〕 ==Academic career== Clarke served as Professor Emeritus of the History and Sociology of Religion at King's College London, having taught there from 1994 to 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.〔〔Sundermeier, Theo. ''The individual and community in African traditional religions'', LIT Verlag, ISBN 978-3-89473-937-9〕 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 was 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).〔Arweck, Elisabeth. ''Researching new religious movements: responses and redefinitions'', p. ix, Routledge 2006, ISBN 978-0-415-27755-6〕〔Stark, Rodney; Finke, Roger. ''Acts of faith: explaining the human side of religion''. University of California Press 2000, p. 16, ISBN 978-0-520-22202-1〕〔Clarke, Peter Bernard. ''New Religions in Global Perspective: A Study of Religious Change in the Modern World'', Routledge 2006, p. 46, ISBN 978-0-415-25748-0〕 Clarke's research fields have spanned Islamic movements as well as new religions derived from African, African Brazilian and Japanese roots.〔〔Weibel, Nadine. ''Weiblicher Blick- Männerglaube/ Religions D'hommes- Regards de Femmes: Beiträge zur Gender-Perspektive in den Religionen'', Waxmann Verlag 2008, p. 193, ISBN 978-3-8309-1923-0〕〔 His publications include ''Religion Defined and Explained'' 1993, with Peter Byrne), ''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.〔 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Peter B. Clarke」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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