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

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

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Series: Anthropology of Media, Book 6

TelevisionGeneral Sociology

ISBN10: 0857454943
ISBN13: 9780857454942
Publisher: Berghahn Books
Published: Jun 1 2012
Pages: 348
Weight: 1.40
Height: 0.81 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English

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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