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Steven Gelberg, M.A.

Steven Gelberg, M.A., while a member from 1970-1987, served as the Krishna Movement's principal liaison to the international academic community (e.g., edited Hare Krishna, Hare Krishna: Five Distinguished Scholars on the Krishna Movement in the West, Grove Press, 1983), and its Director for Interreligious Affairs.  He is author of a number of scholarly articles on ISKCON (and related historical, social-scientific, and cultic issues) published in various academic books and journals.  He subsequently earned a Masters degree (comparative religion) from Harvard Divinity School in 1990.  He currently lives with his wife near San Francisco, where he is an accomplished fine art photographer, working on a book, Photography and Imagination. His essay, "On Leaving ISKCON," is available online at http://surrealist.org/betrayalofthespirit/gelberg.html.

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