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

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

Author
Katrien Pype
Publisher
Berghahn Books
Language
English
Year
2012
Page
348
ISBN
9780857454959
File Type
pdf
File Size
2.0 MiB

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.

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