The
making of the Pentecostal melodrama
religion, media and gender in Kinshasa
Pype, Katrien.
creator
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Electronic books.
nyu
New York
Berghahn Books
�2012
2012
monographic
eng
1 online resource (xvii, 331 pages) : illustrations
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.
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.
Katrien Pype.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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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
Kinshasa (Congo)
Religious life and customs
Kinshasa (Congo)
Social conditions
Kinshasa (Congo)
Politics and government
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
Congo (Democratic Republic)
Kinshasa
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Making of the Pentecostal melodrama
Pype, Katrien.
New York : Berghahn Books, �2012
(DLC) 2011052126
(OCoLC)770204209
Anthropology of media ; v. 6
9780857454959
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https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.2307/j.ctt9qd2k2
https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.2307/j.ctt9qd2k2
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