Secret Ceremony

Tradition, Modernity, and the Confucian Revival: An Introduction and Literature Review of New Confucian Activism

Introduction On August 8th, 2008 countless viewers around the globe watched the opening ceremony of the Beijing Olympics. The ceremony included performers representing the disciples of Confucius, chanting quotations from The Analects. The Confucian theme was continued as the performers lifted and lowered individual blocks in a choreographed display. In the end, the blocks formed the Chinese cha...

The white coat ceremony: a contemporary medical ritual.

T he white coat ceremony is a common practice at many American and European medical schools. Current justification for the ceremony is mainly based on the good will felt by participants and an assumed connection between the ceremony and encouraging humanistic values in medicine. Recent critiques of the ceremony faults its use of oaths, premature alignment of students and faculty, and the select...

Concluding Session and Closing Ceremony: The Tehran Communique

The Representation of Secret in Masnavi Manavi

        Being one of the significant mystic books, Masnavi Manavi has a prominent place in presenting ontology of human being. As though by its revelation, one can reach many mystic and human concepts. Some of the important issues in this work include knowing the secret and secret keeping. The most profound place in Masnavi is where secret and secret keeping are mentioned. Molavi, himself as a...

Ceremony Design and Analysis

The concept of ceremony is introduced as an extension of the concept of network protocol, with human nodes alongside computer nodes and with communication links that include UI, human-to-human communication and transfers of physical objects that carry data. What is out-of-band to a protocol is in-band to a ceremony, and therefore subject to design and analysis using variants of the same mature ...