JOSEPH E. BRITO
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Scholastic Research

  • Intended Doctoral thesis: Reimagining the Colonized Gauls: A Latinx Examination of Paul’s Language on Slavery ​in his letter to the Galatians. 
    Under the supervision of Prof.
    André Gagné (Department of Religion, Concordia University, Montreal).
  • Master’s Thesis: Pentecôte et langues de feu : Analyse structurelle et interprétation d’Actes des Apôtres 2,3.
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    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
  • Latinx Hermeneutics from Canada
  • New Testament Studies (Luke-Acts, and Pauline corpus)
  • Apocryphal Gospels (Nag Hammadi mostly)
  • Early Christianity (1st to 4th Century CE)
  • Cultural Studies 
  • Synchronic Approaches (Structural Analysis, Narative, and Intersectional, reading from the margin)

Interested in
  • Hispanic Studies focusing on Central American Studies
  • Literature (Antebellum and Colonial periods)
  • Colonial Period in Mexico and Central America 
  • Philosophy of Religion
  • Sociology of Religion(s)
  • Crusades (Jewish and Muslim Perspective)

Current Manuscripts
  • 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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