The making of the Pentecostal melodrama
Pype, Katrien.
The making of the Pentecostal melodrama religion, media and gender in Kinshasa / [electronic resource] : Katrien Pype. - New York : Berghahn Books, c2012. - 1 online resource (p. cm.) - Anthropology of Media . - Anthropology of media. .
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
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.
9780857454959 (electronic bk.) 0857454951 (electronic bk.)
9786613814876
381487 MIL
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.
PERFORMING ARTS / Television / Reference
Kinshasa (Congo)--Religious life and customs.
Kinshasa (Congo)--Social condtions.
Kinshasa (Congo)--Politics and government.
Electronic books.
GN654 / .P97 2012eb
791.45096751/12
The making of the Pentecostal melodrama religion, media and gender in Kinshasa / [electronic resource] : Katrien Pype. - New York : Berghahn Books, c2012. - 1 online resource (p. cm.) - Anthropology of Media . - Anthropology of media. .
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
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.
9780857454959 (electronic bk.) 0857454951 (electronic bk.)
9786613814876
381487 MIL
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.
PERFORMING ARTS / Television / Reference
Kinshasa (Congo)--Religious life and customs.
Kinshasa (Congo)--Social condtions.
Kinshasa (Congo)--Politics and government.
Electronic books.
GN654 / .P97 2012eb
791.45096751/12
