The Making of the Pentecostal Melodrama

Religion, Media and Gender in Kinshasa

von Katrien Pype

350 Seiten, Hardcover

Kurzbeschreibung des Verlags

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.

• Reihe: Anthropology of Media
• Themen: Gesellschaft und Sozialwissenschaften Gesellschaft und Kultur, allgemein Kultur- und Medienwissenschaften Medienwissenschaften
• ISBN: 9780857454942
• Sprache: Englisch
• Erscheinungsdatum: 21.06.2012
• Größe: 235 x 157 mm
• Verlag: Berghahn Books