The Making of the Pentecostal Melodrama: Religion, Media and Gender in Kinshasa (Anthropology of Media, 6)

Author: Pype, Katrien

Brand: Berghahn Books

Edition: 1

Features:

• Used Book in Good Condition

Number Of Pages: 348

EAN: 9780857454942

Release Date: 01-06-2012

Package Dimensions: 8.8 x 5.9 x 1.0 inches

Languages: English

Binding: library

Part Number: Refer to Sapnet.

Details: 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.