How religion, gender, and urban sociality are expressed in and mediated via television drama in Kinshasa is the focus of this ethnographic study.Hinweis: Dieser Artikel kann nur an eine deutsche Lieferadresse ausgeliefert werden.
Katrien Pype is an Associate Professor at University of Leuven and a Honorary Research Fellow with the Department of African Studies & Anthropology at University of Birmingham. She is co-initiator, with Miles Larmer and Rueben Loffman, of Congo Research Network, a platform that aims at enhancing dialogue and collaboration among Congo researchers in the humanities and social sciences.
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Illustrations Acknowledgements On Language Chapter 1. The First Episode * Religion, Media and Kinshasa's Public Sphere * Working with Cultural Producers * Mediation and Remediation * Research Methodologies * Structure of the Text Chapter 2. Cursing the City. The Ethnographic Field and the Pentecostal Imagination * The Heat of Kinshasa * Competing Christianities * Signs of the Apocalypse * Witchcraft, or the Extraction of Life * A Christian Key Scenario * To Conclude: (Re-)Presenting the Apocalypse Chapter 3. Of Fathers and Names. Social Dynamics in an Evangelising Drama Group * Bienvenu Toukebana: Setting up and Managing a Drama Group * Fiston 'Chapy' Muzama: From Rapper to Pastor * The Pastor and Maman Pasteur * Clovis Ikala: Setting up a New Theatre Company * Cinarc versus the Group of Muyombe Gauche: Rivalries among Troupes * Mamy Moke and her Lover * Ance Luzolo: Boasting with a Contact * Conclusion Chapter 4. Variations on Divine Afflatus. Artistic Inspiration, Special Effects, and Sermons * The Christian Artist * The Pastor * Special Effects as Visual Evidence * Conclusion: Special Effects, Dreams and Melodrama Chapter 5. Mimesis in Motion. Embodied Experiences of Performers and Spectators * Going into Seclusion * Mimesis and Possession * Spectators and the Sacred * Visuality and the Senses * Framing to Protect * Closing Notes: Mediating Performances Chapter 6. The Right Road. Moral Movements, Confessions and the Christian Subject * 'I am a Sinner' * The Moral Movement * A Modern Purification? * To Conclude I: Mediation by the Holy Spirit: Transformation from Evil to Purity * To Conclude II: Melodrama and Rituals Chapter 7. Opening up the Country. Christian Popular Culture, the Generation Trouble and Time * The Difference between Existing and Living * The Generation Trouble * The Healing Power of Narrative * Past, Present and Future * To Conclude: Youth, Christianity and Development Chapter 8. Marriage comes from God. Negotiating Matrimony and Sexuality (Part I) * Against Ethnic Endogamous Marriages: Mayimona * Incest Reconsidered: The Devouring Fire * Negotiating Adultery: The Open Tomb * Concluding Notes: Playing the Games Chapter 9. The Danger of Sex. Negotiating Matrimony and Urban Sexuality (Part II) * Kindumba: Deviations from Accepted Sexual Practices * God's Men Making Meaning of Sex * Opposing Messages * Women and Social Power: The Moziki Women and Vedettes Conclusion I: Negotiations about Matrimony and Sexuality Conclusion II: The Melodrama and the Feminine Chapter 10. Closure, Subplots and Cliffhanger * The Melodrama on and beyond the Screen * Cultural Producers in an Apocalyptic Society * The Recovery of the Salon * The Next Episode Bibliography Index
Illustrations Acknowledgements On Language Chapter 1. The First Episode * Religion, Media and Kinshasa's Public Sphere * Working with Cultural Producers * Mediation and Remediation * Research Methodologies * Structure of the Text Chapter 2. Cursing the City. The Ethnographic Field and the Pentecostal Imagination * The Heat of Kinshasa * Competing Christianities * Signs of the Apocalypse * Witchcraft, or the Extraction of Life * A Christian Key Scenario * To Conclude: (Re-)Presenting the Apocalypse Chapter 3. Of Fathers and Names. Social Dynamics in an Evangelising Drama Group * Bienvenu Toukebana: Setting up and Managing a Drama Group * Fiston 'Chapy' Muzama: From Rapper to Pastor * The Pastor and Maman Pasteur * Clovis Ikala: Setting up a New Theatre Company * Cinarc versus the Group of Muyombe Gauche: Rivalries among Troupes * Mamy Moke and her Lover * Ance Luzolo: Boasting with a Contact * Conclusion Chapter 4. Variations on Divine Afflatus. Artistic Inspiration, Special Effects, and Sermons * The Christian Artist * The Pastor * Special Effects as Visual Evidence * Conclusion: Special Effects, Dreams and Melodrama Chapter 5. Mimesis in Motion. Embodied Experiences of Performers and Spectators * Going into Seclusion * Mimesis and Possession * Spectators and the Sacred * Visuality and the Senses * Framing to Protect * Closing Notes: Mediating Performances Chapter 6. The Right Road. Moral Movements, Confessions and the Christian Subject * 'I am a Sinner' * The Moral Movement * A Modern Purification? * To Conclude I: Mediation by the Holy Spirit: Transformation from Evil to Purity * To Conclude II: Melodrama and Rituals Chapter 7. Opening up the Country. Christian Popular Culture, the Generation Trouble and Time * The Difference between Existing and Living * The Generation Trouble * The Healing Power of Narrative * Past, Present and Future * To Conclude: Youth, Christianity and Development Chapter 8. Marriage comes from God. Negotiating Matrimony and Sexuality (Part I) * Against Ethnic Endogamous Marriages: Mayimona * Incest Reconsidered: The Devouring Fire * Negotiating Adultery: The Open Tomb * Concluding Notes: Playing the Games Chapter 9. The Danger of Sex. Negotiating Matrimony and Urban Sexuality (Part II) * Kindumba: Deviations from Accepted Sexual Practices * God's Men Making Meaning of Sex * Opposing Messages * Women and Social Power: The Moziki Women and Vedettes Conclusion I: Negotiations about Matrimony and Sexuality Conclusion II: The Melodrama and the Feminine Chapter 10. Closure, Subplots and Cliffhanger * The Melodrama on and beyond the Screen * Cultural Producers in an Apocalyptic Society * The Recovery of the Salon * The Next Episode Bibliography Index
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