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The making of the Pentecostal melodrama : religion, media and gender in 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 n...
| Call Number: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | Inglés |
| Published: |
New York :
Berghahn Books,
©2012.
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| Series: | Anthropology of media ;
v. 6. |
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| Online Access: | Texto completo |
| 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. |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (xvii, 331 pages) : illustrations |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9780857454959 0857454951 1282254227 9781282254220 9786613814876 6613814873 |