Larry Shinn is president of Berea College

Berea College

Berea College is a liberal arts work college in Berea, Kentucky , founded in 1855. Current full-time enrollment is 1,514 students...

, Kentucky. Prior to this appointment he was Vice-President of Academic Affairs, Dean of Humanities and Head of the Religious Studies Department at Bucknell University

Bucknell University

Bucknell University is a private liberal arts university located alongside the West Branch Susquehanna River in the rolling countryside of Central Pennsylvania in the town of Lewisburg, 30 miles southeast of Williamsport and 60 miles north of Harrisburg. The university consists of the College of...

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Larry Shinn received his undergraduate degree from Baldwin-Wallace College

Baldwin-Wallace College

Baldwin–Wallace College is a liberal arts college in Berea, Ohio, founded in 1845. It is home to the Riemenschneider-Bach Institute and the Baldwin–Wallace Conservatory of Music, an internationally renowned music school. The college is affiliated with the United Methodist Church. Students receive a...

 located in Berea Ohio

Berea, Ohio

- History :The first European settlers were originally from Connecticut. Berea fell within Connecticut's Western Reserve and was surveyed and divided into townships and ranges by one Gideon Granger, a gentleman who served as Postmaster General under President Thomas Jefferson...

. In 1972 he defended his dissertation Krsna’s Lila: An Analysis of the Relationship of the Notion of Deity and the Concept of Samsara in the Bhagavata Purana and received a Ph.D.

Ph.D.

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 in history of religions

History of religions

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 from Princeton University

Princeton University

Princeton University is a private research university located in Princeton, New Jersey, United States. The school is one of the eight universities of the Ivy League, and is one of the nine Colonial Colleges founded before the American Revolution....

. Shinn has studied Hare Krishnas 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.

External references

• Office of the President Berea College
  Berea College
  Berea College is a liberal arts work college in Berea, Kentucky , founded in 1855. Current full-time enrollment is 1,514 students...
  
  - 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