# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/david-c-lane
# Generated: 2026-09-03T11:27:17.195Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/david-c-lane"
name: "David C. Lane"
slug: "david-c-lane"
description: "David Christopher Lane 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 Indian 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 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)."
tagline: "American religious studies scholar & surfer (1956-)"
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birthDate: "1956-04-29"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump