The next of the three winning videos from our RELIxperience Video Contest (titled “Mysticism–What is it?”) was produced by Jessica Coates, Avery Mavroudis, and Marlena Moore, a group of students from Patrick D’Silva’s RELI 165: Mysticism class. The video combines the reactions of various UNC students to the term “mysticism” with reflections on the idea gleaned from the course:

For a list of all our RELIxperience video contest winners, click here.

The first of the three winning videos from our RELIxperience Video Contest is titled “This is Carolina Religion,” and it features the different members of the group (Devyn Davis, Kalleen Kelley, Rachel McMillen, and Mallory Meek) describing their experiences with religious studies at Carolina. The video stood out for its focused reflections on the importance of religious studies to a well-rounded undergraduate education as well as for its overall production quality:

For the announcement of our RELIxperience video contest winners, click here.

We are pleased to announce the three winning groups for our 2017 RELIxperience Undergraduate Video Contest:

• Jessica Coates, Avery Mavroudis, and Marlena Moore (students in Patrick D’Silva’s course, RELI 165: Mysticism) for their video “Mysticism–What is it?” [link]
• Mistyre Bonds, Margaret Humble, and Claire Johnson (students in Harshita Kamath’s course, RELI 424: Gender Theory and the Study of Religion) for their video “Tarheel Religions” [link]
• Devyn Davis, Kalleen Kelley, Rachel McMillen, and Mallory Meek (students in Harshita Kamath’s course, RELI 424: Gender Theory and the Study of Religion) for their video “This is Carolina Religion” [link]

Each group will be receiving a $100 prize. We will also be featuring each of these videos in a separate post on our website in the coming days, so stay tuned! (Update: links are being added to the list above as videos are posted.)

We wanted to thank every group that submitted a video, and so for helping to make our video contest a success.