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The making of the Pentecostal melodrama : religion, media and gender in Kinshasa / Katrien Pype.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Pype, Katrien.
- Series:
- Anthropology of the media ; v.6.
- Anthropology of the media ; v.6
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Motion pictures in ethnology--Congo (Democratic Republic)--Kinshasa.
- Motion pictures in ethnology.
- Video recording in ethnology--Congo (Democratic Republic)--Kinshasa.
- Video recording in ethnology.
- Anthropology of religion--Congo (Democratic Republic)--Kinshasa.
- Anthropology of religion.
- Pentecostal churches--Congo (Democratic Republic)--Kinshasa.
- Pentecostal churches.
- Television in religion--Congo (Democratic Republic)--Kinshasa.
- Television in religion.
- Kinshasa (Democratic Republic of the Congo)--Religious life and customs.
- Kinshasa (Democratic Republic of the Congo).
- Kinshasa (Democratic Republic of the Congo)--Social condtions.
- Kinshasa (Democratic Republic of the Congo)--Politics and government.
- Congo (Democratic Republic)--Kinshasa.
- Physical Description:
- xvii, 331 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Berghahn Books, [2012]
- Summary:
- Katrien Pype, a postdoctoral fellow at MIT, examines the production of Pentecostal television fiction in contemporary Kinshasa of the Democratic Republic of the Congo. In particular she considers the production of Pentecostal ideology in the plots and the evangelical actors behind the production. In addition to interviews and observation, as an ethnography of the actors, Pype participated as an actress with an evangelical acting company. In ten chapters she explores the city and Christian beliefs, kinship networks, the distribution of divine authority and knowledge, Christian aesthetics, how television mediates the power of art and its Christian messages, the question of evil and personal morality, the relationship between witchcraft and Christianity, and gender and marriage. A final chapter emphasizes the historicity of the TV serials and addresses the role of the living room in the cultural public sphere. The material was gathered between 2003 and 2006. Annotation ©2012 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographic references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780857454942
- 0857454943
- 9780857454959
- 0857454951
- OCLC:
- 770204209
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