Researching Larry Shinn
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 | Did you know that in the 1881 UK census there were 507 people with the Shinn surname? In that year Shinn was ranked number 3072 for popularity in the UK. |
The name Larry means "Form of LAWRENCE. Laurel-Crowned" and is of Latin origin.
Records of Larry Shinn on Ancestry
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Birth, Death and Marriage Records for Larry Shinn and the Shinn Family History
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| Did you know that there are currently 581 people with the Shinn surname in the UK? Shinn is now ranked number 3491 for popularity in the UK. |
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Larry Shinn
Larry Dwight Shinn (born January 16, 1942) was president of Berea College, Kentucky, from 1994 to 2012. Prior to this appointment he taught for fourteen years in the Department of Religion, Oberlin College, and was Vice-President of Academic Affairs, Dean of Humanities and Head of the Religious Studies Department at Bucknell University.
Larry Shinn received his undergraduate degree from Baldwin-Wallace College located in Berea Ohio. 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. in history of religions from Princeton University. 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.
At Oberlin, Shinn became Danforth Professor of South Asian Religion, and was ordained as a minister in the United Methodist Church.
In both high-school and college he played on championship football teams, and served for nine of his fourteen years at Oberlin as assistant football coach.
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