Title: The making of the Pentecostal melodrama : religion, media and gender in Kinshasa /
Authors: Pype, Katrien.
Publisher: Berghahn Books,
Year: 2012
Subjects: Motion pictures in ethnology Congo (Democratic Republic) Kinshasa.; Video recording in ethnology Congo (Democratic Republic) Kinshasa.; Anthropology of religion Congo (Democratic Republic) Kinshasa.; Pentecostal churches Congo (Democratic Republic) Kinshasa.; Television in religion Congo (Democratic Republic) Kinshasa.; Kinshasa (Congo) Religious life and customs.; Kinshasa (Congo) Social conditions.; Kinshasa (Congo) Politics and government.
Contents: List of illustrations -- Acknowledgments -- The first episode -- Cursing the city: the ethnographic field and the Pentacostal imagination -- New fathers and new names: social dynamics in an evangelizing activity group -- Variations on divine afflatus: artistic imagination, special effects, and sermons -- Mimesis in motion: embodied experiences of performers and spectators -- The right road: moral movements, confessions, and the Christian subject -- Opening up the country: Christian popular culture, generation trouble, and time -- Marriage comes from God: negotiating matrimony and urban sexuality (Part I) -- The danger of sex: negotiating matrimony and urban sexuality (Part II) -- Closure, subplots, and cliffhanger.