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Author Pype, Katrien.

Title The making of the Pentecostal melodrama : religion, media and gender in Kinshasa / Katrien Pype.

Publication Info. New York : Berghahn Books, [2012]
©2012

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Description 1 online resource (xvii, 331 pages) : illustrations.
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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.
Local Note eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America
Language English.
Subject Motion pictures in ethnology -- Congo (Democratic Republic) -- Kinshasa.
Motion pictures in ethnology.
Congo (Democratic Republic) -- Kinshasa.
Video recording in ethnology -- Congo (Democratic Republic) -- Kinshasa.
Video recording in ethnology.
Anthropology of religion -- Congo (Democratic Republic) -- Kinshasa.
Anthropology of religion.
Pentecostal churches -- Congo (Democratic Republic) -- Kinshasa.
Pentecostal churches.
Television in religion -- Congo (Democratic Republic) -- Kinshasa.
Kinshasa (Congo) -- Religious life and customs.
Kinshasa (Congo) -- Social conditions.
Kinshasa (Congo) -- Politics and government.
PERFORMING ARTS -- Television -- Reference.
Television in religion.
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Anthropology -- Cultural.
Politics and government.
Social conditions.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Other Form: Print version: Pype, Katrien. Making of the Pentecostal melodrama. New York : Berghahn Books, ©2012 9780857454942 (DLC) 2011052126 (OCoLC)770204209
ISBN 9780857454959 (electronic book)
0857454951 (electronic book)
0857454943
9780857454942
1282254227
9781282254220
9786613814876
6613814873
Standard No. 9786613814876