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Author Pype, Katrien

Title The making of the Pentecostal melodrama : religion, media and gender in Kinshasa / Katrien Pype
Published New York : Berghahn Books, ©2012

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Description 1 online resource (xvii, 331 pages) : illustrations
Series Anthropology of media ; v. 6
Anthropology of media ; v. 6.
Contents Illustrations; Acknowledgments; On Language; Chapter 1 -- The First Episode; Chapter 2 -- Cursing the City: The Ethnographic Field and the Pentecostal Imagination; Chapter 3 -- New Fathers and New Names: Social Dynamics in an Evangelizing Acting Group; Chapter 4 -- Variations on Divine Afflatus: Artistic Inspiration, Special Effects, and Sermons; Chapter 5 -- Mimesis in Motion: Embodied Experiences of Performers and Spectators; Chapter 6 -- The Right Road: Moral Movements, Confessions, and the Christian Subject; Chapter 7 -- Opening Up the Country: Christian Popular Culture, Generation Trouble, and Time; Chapter 8 -- Marriage comes from God: Negotiating Matrimony and Urban Sexuality (Part I); Chapter 9 -- The Danger of Sex: Negotiating Matrimony and Urban Sexuality (Part II); Chapter 10 -- Closure, Subplots, and Cliffhanger
Summary How religion, gender, and urban sociality are expressed in and mediated via television drama in Kinshasa is the focus of this ethnographic study. Influenced by Nigerian films and intimately related to the emergence of a charismatic Christian scene, these teleserials integrate melodrama, conversion narratives, Christian songs, sermons, testimonies, and deliverance rituals to produce commentaries on what it means to be an inhabitant of Kinshasa
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes English
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Subject Motion pictures in ethnology -- Congo (Democratic Republic) -- Kinshasa
Video recording in ethnology -- Congo (Democratic Republic) -- Kinshasa
Anthropology of religion -- Congo (Democratic Republic) -- Kinshasa
Pentecostal churches -- Congo (Democratic Republic) -- Kinshasa
Television in religion -- Congo (Democratic Republic) -- Kinshasa
PERFORMING ARTS -- Television -- Reference.
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Anthropology -- Cultural.
Anthropology of religion
Motion pictures in ethnology
Pentecostal churches
Politics and government
Social conditions
Television in religion
Video recording in ethnology
SUBJECT Kinshasa (Congo) -- Religious life and customs
Kinshasa (Congo) -- Social conditions
Kinshasa (Congo) -- Politics and government
Subject Congo (Democratic Republic) -- Kinshasa
Genre/Form dissertations.
Academic theses
Academic theses.
Thèses et écrits académiques.
Form Electronic book
LC no. 2011052126
ISBN 9780857454959
0857454951
1282254227
9781282254220
9786613814876
6613814873