Abstract
AS scholars committed to explore and illuminate the varied regions of thought and practice, text and image, or prescription and custom circumscribed by the rather curious samāsa “Hindu-Christian,” we may do well to pay more thoughtful attention to ludic features of the landscape. Several decades ago Johan Huizinga counted the inclination to play to be so definitive of being human as to merit reference to our species as homo ludens. Happily, some attention is already being given to this in the area of South Asian religion, as Selva Raj and Corinne Dempsey have shown with their edited volume, Sacred Play: Ritual Levity and Humor in South Asian Religions (SUNY 2010).
Recommended Citation
Valpey, Kenneth R.
(2012)
"Viewpoint: Reflections on Ludic Dimensions in Hindu-Christian Scholarship,"
Journal of Hindu-Christian Studies:
Vol. 25, Article 10.
Available at: https://doi.org/10.7825/2164-6279.1516