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The Making of the Pentecostal Melodrama : Religion, Media and Gender in Kinshasa / Katrien Pype

New York ; Oxford : Berghahn Books, [2012] [©2012]

1 Online-Ressource (348 p.)

Englisch

In English

978-0-85745-495-9

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Digital Object Identifier (DOI): 10.1515/9780857454959

GN654 ; GN

bisacsh: SOC052000

LOC-SH: Anthropology of religion -- Congo (Democratic Republic) -- Kinshasa ; Motion pictures in ethnology -- Congo (Democratic Republic) -- Kinshasa ; Pentecostal churches -- Congo (Democratic Republic) -- Kinshasa ; Television in religion -- Congo (Democratic Republic) -- Kinshasa ; Video recording in ethnology -- Congo (Democratic Republic) -- Kinshasa

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