l'Afrique

La Belgique

Ph.D. Student

Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium

Katrien.Pype@soc.kuleuven.be

Institute for Anthropological Research in Africa (IARA)
Catholic University of Leuven (KUL), Belgium
Parkstraat 45
Box 3615
B-3000
Leuven
Belgium

phone: +32.16.32.04.63
fax: +32.16.32.59.02

http://soc.kuleuven.be/arc/staff/katrienpype.htm

Congo (Democratic Republic)

interests include: Central Africa, religion (Pentecostalism), masculinities and femininities, politics, mass media, popular culture (theater, dance, sports).

Ph.D. thesis on visual culture in Kinshasa, the production of television serials as modes of evangelization.

"Fighting Boys, Strong Men, and Gorillas. Notes on the Imagination of
Masculinities in Postcolonial Kinshasa (DR Congo)," Africa, Journal of
the International Institute, 2007, 77 (2), 250-271.

"Dancing for God or the Devil. Pentecostalist Politics of Popular Dance
in Kinshasa," Journal of Religion in Africa. 2006, 36 (3-4), 296-318.

"'We need to open up the country'. Development and the Christian Key
Scenario in the Social Space of Kinshasa's Teleserials," JAMS - Journal of
African Media Studies, 2007, 1 (2). Special Issue, December 2007:
Selections from "Media and Social Change in Africa", Conference Held at
the University of Westminster, March 2006. [17 pp.]

Kinshasa ; religion ; politics ; culture ; masculinities ; femininities ; ...