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The Making of the Pentecostal Melodrama: Religion, Media and Gender in Kinshasa (Anthropology of Media Book 6)

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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. Read more

ASIN B00CLJ44JQ
XRay Not Enabled
ISBN13 978-0857454959
Edition 1st
Language English
File size 6.3 MB
Page Flip Enabled
Publisher Berghahn Books
Word Wise Enabled
Print length 532 pages
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Screen Reader Supported
Part of series Anthropology of Media
Publication date June 1, 2012
Enhanced typesetting Enabled

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