The making of the Pentecostal melodrama : religion, media and gender in Kinshasa / Katrien Pype.

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 n...

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Main Author: Pype, Katrien
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: New York : Berghahn Books, ©2012.
Series:Anthropology of media ; v. 6.
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