TY  - BOOK
AU  - Pype,Katrien
TI  - The Making of the Pentecostal Melodrama: Religion, Media and Gender in Kinshasa 
T2  - Anthropology of Media
SN  - 9780857454942
AV  - GN 
PY  - 2012///]
CY  - New York, Oxford
PB  - Berghahn Books
KW  - Anthropology of religion
KW  - Congo (Democratic Republic)
KW  - Kinshasa
KW  - Motion pictures in ethnology
KW  - Pentecostal churches
KW  - Television in religion
KW  - Video recording in ethnology
KW  - SOCIAL SCIENCE / Media Studies
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - Anthropology of Religion, Media Studies, Anthropology (General), Gender Studies and Sexuality
N1  - 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
N2  - 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
UR  - https://doi.org/10.1515/9780857454959
UR  - https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9780857454959
UR  - https://www.degruyter.com/document/cover/isbn/9780857454959/original
ER  -