The
making of the Pentecostal melodrama
religion, media and gender in Kinshasa
Pype, Katrien.
creator
text
Electronic books.
nyu
New York
Berghahn Books
c2012
2012
monographic
eng
1 online resource (p. cm.)
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.
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
Katrien Pype.
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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
Kinshasa (Congo)
Religious life and customs
Kinshasa (Congo)
Social condtions
Kinshasa (Congo)
Politics and government
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