Toward Universal Religion: Voices of American and Indian Spirituality

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Using the 1893 and 1993 World's Parliament of Religions as a focus for probing intercultural religious communication, this study describes more than a century's preoccupation with a provocative phenomenon called "universal religion." It presents 12 enduringly significant speakers whose rhetorical effectiveness, combined with their concepts of universal religion, forge an intercultural synthesis combining Eastern religions and Western thought. This volume should interest scholars and students of both religion and rhetoric as well as the general public. It provides a deeper appreciation of such well-known communicators as Emerson and Thoreau, as well as an introduction to the significant contributions of thinkers such as Roy, Sen, Besant, Vivekananda, Tagore, Radhakrishnan, Gandhi, Jenkins Lloyd Jones, John Haynes Holmes, and Preston Bradley.

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The book's most obvious asset is that it is informative. This book can be recommended as both a store of information and a possible catalyst to further study. The writing is straightforward and clear. Upper-division undergraduate; graduate; faculty.-Choice
"The book's most obvious asset is that it is informative. This book can be recommended as both a store of information and a possible catalyst to further study. The writing is straightforward and clear. Upper-division undergraduate; graduate; faculty."-Choice

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DANIEL ROSS CHANDLER is an ordained minister of the United Methodist Church who holds affiliate membership in the Unitarian Universalist Ministers Fellowships. For 20 years he held academic appointments in the state and city universities of New York and at Rutgers University. In 1986 a Fulbright Fellowship permitted him to travel widely in India and study Indian literary traditions. He created and coordinated the international interdisciplinary academic conference (The Academy) that was a central component of the 1993 Parliament of the World's Religions. For publication, he compiled a compendium containing the offical proceedings, The 1993 Parliament of the World's Religions. In 1991-1993, he was appointed a post-doctoral reseach scholar in the Divinity School of the University of Chicago, where research was completed on Toward Universal Religion.