The making of the Pentecostal melodrama : religion, media and gender in Kinshasa /

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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 n...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Pype, Katrien
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: New York : Berghahn Books, ©2012.
Series:Anthropology of media ; v. 6.
Subjects:
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.
Cinéma en ethnologie > Congo (République démocratique) > Kinshasa.
Vidéo en ethnologie > Congo (République démocratique) > Kinshasa.
Anthropologie religieuse > Congo (République démocratique) > Kinshasa.
Églises pentecôtistes > Congo (République démocratique) > Kinshasa.
Télévision dans la religion > Congo (République démocratique) > Kinshasa.
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
Kinshasa (Congo) > Religious life and customs.
Kinshasa (Congo) > Social conditions.
Kinshasa (Congo) > Politics and government.
Congo (Democratic Republic) > Kinshasa
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • 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.

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