Sakyong Mipham’s Shambhala as a Playful Road to an Enlightened Society

Two well-established and prominent theories in the sociology of culture are Robert Bellah’s theory of religion and Johan Huizinga’s theory of play. Both argue that religious ritual originates as a form of play that creates individual and social change and functions as an adaptive force in human evol...

The International Journal of Religion and Spirituality in Society

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