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...

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1. Verfasser: Pype, Katrien
Format: Elektronisch E-Book
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: New York : Berghahn Books, ©2012.
Schriftenreihe:Anthropology of media ; v. 6.
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Zusammenfassung: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.
Beschreibung:1 online resource (xvii, 331 pages) : illustrations
Bibliographie:Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:9780857454959
0857454951
1282254227
9781282254220
9786613814876
6613814873

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