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Albert Yang/ 楊雲

Albert Yang/ 楊雲

Sharing a recently published book review of mine.

TAOISM, TEACHING, AND LEARNING: A NATURE‐BASED APPROACH TO EDUCATION. By John P. Miller with Xiang Li and Tian Ruan. Toronto, ON…

1 min readJan 14, 2023

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Review: TAOISM, TEACHING, AND LEARNING: A NATURE-BASED APPROACH TO EDUCATION

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Albert Yang/ 楊雲

Deuteronomistic History: One God, one King, and one People

Facing the most existential threat to the survival of Judean and Israelite identity, the Drt and the DrtH undertook a more extensive task…

8 min readNov 7, 2022

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Deuteronomistic History: One God, one King, and one People

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Albert Yang/ 楊雲

Deuteronomistic History: a case study of preservation, retrieval, and communication of cultural…

The case study will be focused on how ancient Israelites established their normative past through “Deuteronomistic history.” We will look…

5 min readNov 4, 2022

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Deuteronomistic History: a case study of preservation, retrieval, and communication of cultural…

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Albert Yang/ 楊雲

Religion as Social and cultural memory (Part Three): Moses and Jesus

There are various mnemonic formulae that religious traditions utilize to ensure the continuity and stability of the cultural and religious…

4 min readOct 31, 2022

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Religion as Social and cultural memory (Part Three): Moses and Jesus

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Albert Yang/ 楊雲

Religion as Social and cultural memory (Part Two): Formation of religious tradition as constructed…

Ever since the early 20th century, when Maurice Halbwachs [1], a French sociologist, pioneered the theory of memory, it has been widely…

3 min readOct 31, 2022

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Religion as Social and cultural memory (Part Two): Formation of religious tradition as constructed…

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Albert Yang/ 楊雲

From habitus to social/cultural memory to religion, thoughts inspired by Pierre Bourdieu.

“. . . in each of us, in varying proportions, there is part of yesterday’s man; it is yesterday’s man who inevitably predominates in us…

3 min readOct 31, 2022

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From habitus to social/cultural memory to religion, thoughts inspired by Pierre Bourdieu.

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Albert Yang/ 楊雲

Rationality and spirituality: a non-dichotomous view

One of the damages inflicted on enlightened minds by tidal waves of modernity is the dichotomous distinction between reason and faith…

3 min readOct 31, 2022

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Rationality and spirituality: a non-dichotomous view

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Albert Yang/ 楊雲

Road trip photos

2 min readJan 12, 2021

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Road trip photos

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Albert Yang/ 楊雲

My music playlist

My all-time favorite “Nella Fantasia”

3 min readDec 12, 2020

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My music playlist

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Albert Yang/ 楊雲

Modernity and the black hole of meaningless

Max Weber, a German sociologist and philosopher, once commented that “modernity produces a self skilled in the art of discerning the…

5 min readDec 12, 2020

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Modernity and the black hole of meaningless

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Albert Yang/ 楊雲

Albert Yang/ 楊雲

I need my daily dose of wisdom from Biblical Hebrew and Classical Chinese texts. Love photography and philosophy as they are the way I “see” the world.

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