| College: | Institute for Christian Studies |
| Degrees: | PhD (Boston College) |
| Email: | nderoo@icscanada.edu |
| Teaching Category: |
Affiliate Cross-Appointment
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| Appointment Status: |
Basic Degree
GCTS Full
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Bio
Professor of Philosophy
BA (Calvin College), MA (Institute for Christian Studies), PhD (Boston College)
Neal DeRoo has served in many roles at the intersection of philosophy and religion, most recently as the Canada Research Chair in Phenomenology and Philosophy of Religion at The King's University. He was the Director of the Andreas Center for Reformed Scholarship and Service from 2014-2016, the founding editor of in All things, and has served on numerous boards and advisory committees, including the Christian Scholar's Review, the Society for the Phenomenology of Religious Experience, the Society for Existential and Phenomenological Theory and Culture, and the Canadian Journal for Scholarship and the Christian Faith. He has two authored books (with one more on the way), six edited books, and numerous articles and book chapters on phenomenology, the philosophy of religion, politics, and more. He speaks and lectures worldwide to academic, popular and professional audiences, including doing professional development work with Christian day school teachers. His current work develops the phenomenological notion of spirituality, which functions as a foundational element of how we experience things and influences everything from how we intuit the world to questions of racialization and genderization to how we worship God.
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Specializations
- Phenomenology (Husserl, Merleau-Ponty, Derrida, Levinas, Henry, the “Theological Turn”)
- Contemporary re-imaginings of the Nature of God (Caputo, Kearney, Marion)
- Critical Phenomenology (Guenther, Heinämaa, Yancy, al-Saji)
- The relationship between God and Materiality (Robbins and Crockett, Lacoste, Caputo)
- Philosophies of Oppression (Frye, Butler, Fanon, Anzaldúa)
- What is Religion (Schilbraack, Simmons, Charles Taylor)
- Philosophies of Liturgy (Gschwandtner, Benson)
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Publications
- The Political Logic of Experience: Expression in Phenomenology. Fordham University Press, June 2022.
- Philosophies of Liturgy: Explorations in Embodied Religious Practice, co-edited with J. Aaron Simmons and Bruce Ellis Benson (Bloomsbury, 2023).
- “The Case for a Phenomenological Politics,” Critical and Political Phenomenology in Debate Online Lecture Series, February 15, 2024.
- “Caputo as Transcendental Phenomenologist”, invited keynote lecture given at the launch of the John D. Caputo archives at Duquesne University, April 2023.
- “Spirit,” in Encyclopedia of Phenomenology (Springer: Forthcoming).
- “A Transcendental Phenomenology of Religion” in The Phenomenological Study of Religion: Key Texts and Sources ed. Christina M. Gschwandtner (Northwestern University Press, forthcoming).
- “Thinking Revelation as Expression in and through Phenomenology,” Journal for Continental Philosophy of Religion (forthcoming).
- “Carnal Sacrality: Phenomenology, the Sacred and Material Bodies in Richard Kearney,” in Treanor and Taylor (eds.), Anacarnation and Returning to the Lived Body with Richard Kearney (London and New York: Routledge, 2023).