JOSEPH E. BRITO
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Scholastic Research

  • Intended Doctoral thesis: Reimagining The Colonized Galatians from a Latinx Perspective: A Post-Colonial Examination of Paul’s Language on Slavery and the Flesh in his Letter to the Galatians – Under the supervision of Prof. André Gagné (Department of Religion, Concordia University, Montreal).
  • Master’s Thesis: The Symbolism of the “Tongues as of fire” of Acts 2:3; Structural analysis of the Pentecost Account (Acts 2:1-47) – Under the supervision of Prof. Pierre Létourneau (Faculté de Théologie et Science Religieuses, Université de Montréal, Montreal). 

Comprehensive Examinations

  • Post-Colonial Theories (Winter 2016)
  • Slavery during the Roman Empire (Summer 2017)
  • History of New Testament Studies (Winter 2017)

Fields of Specialization and Interest

Specialization
  • Roman Slavery
  • Post-Colonial Studies
  • New Testament Studies (Luke-Acts, and Pauline corpus)
  • Apocryphal Gospels (Nag Hammadi mostly)
  • Early Christianity (1st to 4th Century CE)
  • Synchronic Approaches (Structural Analysis, Narative, and Intersectional, reading from the margin)

Interested in
  • Gender Studies
  • Philosophy of Religion
  • Material Culture
  • Ethnography, Anthropology
  • Sociology of Religion(s)
  • Crusades (Jewish and Muslim Perspective)
  • Literature (Antebellum, and Colonial periods)
  • Central/South American Native Studies

Current Research
  • Telling the Past and Quoting Scriptures in Stephen's Sermon in Acts 7 (Structural Analysis) 
  • Lucan Apparitions of the Resurrected Jesus and the Travellers to Emaus (Narrative Approach, and Emotions Theories)
  • Paul and the Fortune Teller in Acts 16 (Structural and Intersectional analysis)
  • Rhoda and Peter, Silence and Agency (Structural and Intersectional analysis)
  • The Metaphor "Slave of God" in the Acts of Paul and Thecla (Narrative and Intersectinal approach)
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