TY - BOOK AU - Pype,Katrien TI - The making of the Pentecostal melodrama: religion, media and gender in Kinshasa T2 - Anthropology of media SN - 9780857454959 AV - GN654 .P97 2012eb U1 - 791.45096751/12 23 PY - 2012/// CY - New York PB - Berghahn Books KW - Motion pictures in ethnology KW - Congo (Democratic Republic) KW - Kinshasa KW - Video recording in ethnology KW - Anthropology of religion KW - Pentecostal churches KW - Television in religion KW - PERFORMING ARTS KW - Television KW - Reference KW - bisacsh KW - SOCIAL SCIENCE KW - Anthropology KW - Cultural KW - fast KW - Politics and government KW - Social conditions KW - Kinshasa (Congo) KW - Religious life and customs KW - Electronic books N1 - Includes bibliographical references and index; 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 N2 - 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 UR - https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.2307/j.ctt9qd2k2 ER -