- Larry Shinn
Larry Shinn is president of
Berea College , Kentucky. Previous to this appointment he was Vice-President of Academic Affairs, Dean of Humanities and Head of the Religious Studies Department atBucknell University , USA. Prof. Shinn has studiedISKCON in America for more than forty years and, among his other writings, published, "The Dark Lord," a study of the Hare Krishnas and the cult controversy. Prof. Shinn is also a Methodist Minister. He is notable for accepting bona fide of theISKCON even before majority of academia accepted their traditional and orthodox nature. Harvnb|Shinn|ICJ-1994|loc=2.1]Prof. Larry Shinn in his overview of the contemporary state of the
Prabhupada 's movement confirms this while relating his first meeting withSatsvarupa dasa Goswami who introduced him to the movement:Notes
External References
[http://www.berea.edu/president/people/larryshinn.asp Office of the President]
Berea College - Prof. Dr. Larry D. Shinn.Publications
*"Krishna Consciousness in the West", David G. Bromley, Larry D. Shinn , 1989 [http://books.google.com/books?id=F-EuD3M2QYoC&printsec=frontcover&dq=Larry+Shinn] ]
*"Abingdon Dictionary of Living Religions", Keith Crim, Roger Aubrey Bullard, Larry D. Shinn, 1981 [http://books.google.com/books?id=boQYAAAAIAAJ&dq=Larry+Shinn]
*"The Dark Lord: Cult Images and the Hare Krishnas in America" by Larry D. Shinn, 1987 [http://books.google.ie/books?id=qZhfAAAACAAJ&dq=Larry+Shinn]* ICJ reference [http://www.iskcon.com/icj/2_1/contributors.html#ls]
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