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.