The Making of the Pentecostal Melodrama
Publisher： Berghahn Books
Publication year： 2012
E-ISBN: 9780857454959
P-ISBN(Paperback): 9780857454942
P-ISBN(Hardback): 9780857454942
Subject： C912.4 cultural anthropology, social anthropology
Keyword： 社会学,信息与知识传播,宗教
Language： ENG
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Description
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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