Larry Shinn

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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 at Bucknell University, USA. Prof. Shinn has studied ISKCON 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 the ISKCON even before majority of academia accepted their traditional and orthodox nature. ^[1]

Prof. Larry Shinn in his overview of the contemporary state of the Prabhupada's movement confirms this while relating his first meeting with Satsvarupa dasa Goswami who introduced him to the movement:

Thing that caused me to correct my initial prejudices about the Krishnas was that those who joined the movement came through several modes of conversion and from many different backgrounds. Satsvarupa dasa Goswami, who later was appointed as one of Prabhupada's guru successors, was one of the earliest devotees I met. He was in his late twenties when I met him in New York City. He had discovered the Krishnas as a result of a spiritual quest which was satisfied within this Indian tradition.

– L.Shinn, The Maturation of the Hare Krishnas in America, 1994 ^[1]

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[edit] External References

Office of the President Berea College - Prof. Dr. Larry D. Shinn.

[edit] Publications

• Krishna Consciousness in the West, David G. Bromley, Larry D. Shinn , 1989[1]]

• Abingdon Dictionary of Living Religions, Keith Crim, Roger Aubrey Bullard, Larry D. Shinn, 1981[2]
• The Dark Lord: Cult Images and the Hare Krishnas in America by Larry D. Shinn, 1987[3]

• ICJ reference [4]