RELIxperience Video Contest Winners

RELIxperience Video Contest Winners
 

Video Contest

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.

Posted in News & Events, Undergraduate Accomplishments on March 30, 2017. Bookmark the permalink.

Sand Mandala at UNC’s Asia Week 2017

Sand Mandala at UNC’s Asia Week 2017
 

Last week, as part of the festivities for UNC’s Asia Week 2017, a Tibetan Monk from the Kadampa Center in Raleigh, Geshe Palden Sangpo, was invited to the FedEx Global Education Center to build a sand mandala over the course of several days. The building of the sand mandala, and its subsequent destruction, are part of an ancient Tibetan Buddhist tradition that embodies themes of harmony and the transitoriness of life.

A student in our department, Brodie Heginbotham, who is a double major in Religious Studies and Journalism at UNC, wrote an article describing the event and covering the different dimensions of its significance. To read the article, click here.

Mandala

Building the sand mandala

Mandala-complete

The completed sand mandala

Posted in Events, Undergraduate Accomplishments on March 1, 2017. Bookmark the permalink.