The Making of the Pentecostal Melodrama

The Making of the Pentecostal Melodrama
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Publisher : Berghahn Books
Total Pages : 349
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ISBN-10 : 9780857454959
ISBN-13 : 0857454951
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Book Synopsis The Making of the Pentecostal Melodrama by : Katrien Pype

Download or read book The Making of the Pentecostal Melodrama written by Katrien Pype and published by Berghahn Books. This book was released on 2012-06-01 with total page 349 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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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