The Making of the Pentecostal Melodrama

The Making of the Pentecostal MelodramaHow 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.

this anthology considers to what extent a subject as elusive as death can be examined

it is impossible not to be fascinated with the way Dorrington works

applying them in concrete cultural and historical contexts

offering an exceptional window into the mindset of Nubian women before 1964

The men and women of the foreign press experienced China's history and development

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an eleventh-century Sanskrit poetic text

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This book seeks to detect the ways of thinking about international law present in films and TV series

including questions of political authority