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

(Book #6 in the Anthropology of Media Series)

by Katrien Pype

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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.

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Format:Paperback

Language:English

ISBN:1782386815

ISBN13:9781782386810

Release Date:October 2014

Publisher:Berghahn Books

Length:348 Pages

Weight:1.03 lbs.

Dimensions:0.7" x 6.0" x 9.0"

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Arts, Music & Photography Performing Arts Social Science Social Sciences

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