The Making of the Pentecostal Melodrama : Religion, Media and Gender in Kinshasa /
Pype, Katrien
The Making of the Pentecostal Melodrama : Religion, Media and Gender in Kinshasa / Katrien Pype. - 1 online resource (348 p.) - Anthropology of Media ; 6 .
Frontmatter -- 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 -- Bibliography -- Index
restricted access http://purl.org/coar/access_right/c_16ec
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.
Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
In English.
9780857454942 9780857454959
10.1515/9780857454959 doi
Anthropology of religion--Congo (Democratic Republic)--Kinshasa.
Motion pictures in ethnology--Congo (Democratic Republic)--Kinshasa.
Pentecostal churches--Congo (Democratic Republic)--Kinshasa.
Television in religion--Congo (Democratic Republic)--Kinshasa.
Video recording in ethnology--Congo (Democratic Republic)--Kinshasa.
SOCIAL SCIENCE / Media Studies.
Anthropology of Religion, Media Studies, Anthropology (General), Gender Studies and Sexuality.
GN
The Making of the Pentecostal Melodrama : Religion, Media and Gender in Kinshasa / Katrien Pype. - 1 online resource (348 p.) - Anthropology of Media ; 6 .
Frontmatter -- 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 -- Bibliography -- Index
restricted access http://purl.org/coar/access_right/c_16ec
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.
Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
In English.
9780857454942 9780857454959
10.1515/9780857454959 doi
Anthropology of religion--Congo (Democratic Republic)--Kinshasa.
Motion pictures in ethnology--Congo (Democratic Republic)--Kinshasa.
Pentecostal churches--Congo (Democratic Republic)--Kinshasa.
Television in religion--Congo (Democratic Republic)--Kinshasa.
Video recording in ethnology--Congo (Democratic Republic)--Kinshasa.
SOCIAL SCIENCE / Media Studies.
Anthropology of Religion, Media Studies, Anthropology (General), Gender Studies and Sexuality.
GN