Editing David C. Lane (section)

{{Short description|American sociologist and author}}
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'''David Christopher Lane''' (born April 29, 1956 in [[Burbank, California]]) is a professor of [[philosophy]] and [[sociology]] at [[Mt. San Antonio College]], in [[Walnut, California]]. He is notable for his book ''The Making of a Spiritual Movement: The Untold Story of Paul Twitchell and Eckankar'' which exposed the origins of [[Eckankar]] and demonstrated the plagiarism of its founder, [[Paul Twitchell]]. He is also notable for introducing to a wider audience the teachings of [[Baba Faqir Chand]], the [[India]]n exponent of [[Surat Shabd Yoga]] from [[Hoshiapur]] in the book, ''The Unknowing Sage: The Life and Work of Baba Faqir Chand''. Lane founded the journal, ''Understanding Cults and Spiritual Movements''<ref>{{cite web| url = https://www.encyclopedia.com/science/encyclopedias-almanacs-transcripts-and-maps/understanding-cults-and-spiritual-movements-research-publication-series| title = Understanding Cults and Spiritual Movements (Research Publication Series) {{!}} Encyclopedia.com}}</ref> in the 1980s which featured critical studies of [[John-Roger Hinkins]] and [[Movement of Spiritual Inner Awareness]], [[Adi Da]], and [[Sathya Sai Baba]]. His most recent book, ''The Sound Current Tradition'' (2022) was on [[Nada Yoga]] and [[Surat Shabd Yoga]] in new religions and was published by [[Cambridge University Press]]. He also co-authored an annotated bibliography on the [[Radhasoami Tradition]] with [[Mark Juergensmeyer]] for [[Oxford University Press]] (2018).