The Making of the Pentecostal Melodrama: Religion, Media and Gender in Kinshasa by Pype, Katrien

The Making of the Pentecostal Melodrama: Religion, Media and Gender in Kinshasa (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781782386810)

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The Making of the Pentecostal Melodrama: Religion, Media and Gender in Kinshasa by Pype, Katrien

The Making of the Pentecostal Melodrama: Religion, Media and Gender in Kinshasa

$34.95
The Making of the Pentecostal Melodrama: Religion, Media and Gender in Kinshasa by Pype, Katrien

The Making of the Pentecostal Melodrama: Religion, Media and Gender in Kinshasa

$34.95
Format: Paperback
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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.



Author: Katrien Pype
ISBN-10: 1782386815
ISBN-13: 9781782386810
Publisher: Berghahn Books
Language: English
Published: 10/01/2014
Pages: 348
Format: Paperback
Weight: 1.03lbs
Size: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.73d
By Katrien Pype
By Katrien Pype
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Katrien Pype is an Associate Professor at University of Leuven and a Honorary Research Fellow with the Department of African Studies & Anthropology at University of Birmingham. She is co-initiator, with Miles Larmer and Rueben Loffman, of Congo Research Network, a platform that aims at enhancing dialogue and collaboration among Congo researchers in the humanities and social sciences.

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