Wim Vandewiele
Biographic Data
| ID | 1124038 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Wim Vandewiele |
| GIVEN NAMES | Wim |
| FAMILY NAME | Vandewiele |
| SIGNATURE | VANDEWIELE W |
| AFFILIATIONS | Evangelical Theological Faculty |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-4701-885X |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 3 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 2 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 3 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2021 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
The Wound That Fractures and Connects
This paper argues that the wound—psychological, ecological, and ontological—is the site where human relationality breaks down and also, paradoxically, where its restoration becomes possible. Drawing on trauma theory, Georges Bataille’s anthropology of discontinuity, and Michael Bond’s account of mortality-driven withdrawal from nature, the study shows how disrelating emerges when individuals and societies retreat from the vulnerability that conne…
The Paradoxical Power of Vulnerability—What It Reveals about Abuse and Cover-Up
Researching the question of how the Roman Catholic Church (RCC), and by extension other institutional systems, respond or do not respond to the lived reality of abuse and its cover-up cannot be done without seeking to understand the underlying issue: What is the RCC responding (or not responding) to? One elucidating and perhaps surprising answer lies in the little and often misunderstood word vulnerability. Vulnerability, most probably counter-in…
The Decline of Religious Life in the Twentieth Century
The decline in numbers of religious in the West is discussed in numerous studies. While there is a consensus about the statistical reality of decreasing numbers, scholars disagree about the alleged reasons for this decline. This article maps the field and presents a survey of four categories of answers to the question of why religious life declined during the twentieth century. A distinction is made between theories that ascribe the decline to (1…
The Decline of Religious Life in the Twentieth Century
The decline in numbers of religious in the West is discussed in numerous studies. While there is a consensus about the statistical reality of decreasing numbers, scholars disagree about the alleged reasons for this decline. This article maps the field and presents a survey of four categories of answers to the question of why religious life declined during the twentieth century. A distinction is made between theories that ascribe the decline to (1…
The Decline of Religious Life in the Twentieth Century
The decline in numbers of religious in the West is discussed in numerous studies. While there is a consensus about the statistical reality of decreasing numbers, scholars disagree about the alleged reasons for this decline. This article maps the field and presents a survey of four categories of answers to the question of why religious life declined during the twentieth century. A distinction is made between theories that ascribe the decline to (1…
The Paradoxical Power of Vulnerability—What It Reveals about Abuse and Cover-Up
Researching the question of how the Roman Catholic Church (RCC), and by extension other institutional systems, respond or do not respond to the lived reality of abuse and its cover-up cannot be done without seeking to understand the underlying issue: What is the RCC responding (or not responding) to? One elucidating and perhaps surprising answer lies in the little and often misunderstood word vulnerability. Vulnerability, most probably counter-in…
The Wound That Fractures and Connects
This paper argues that the wound—psychological, ecological, and ontological—is the site where human relationality breaks down and also, paradoxically, where its restoration becomes possible. Drawing on trauma theory, Georges Bataille’s anthropology of discontinuity, and Michael Bond’s account of mortality-driven withdrawal from nature, the study shows how disrelating emerges when individuals and societies retreat from the vulnerability that conne…
Philosophy (2 works) · Religion and Society Interactions (2 works) · Sociology (2 works) · Aesthetics (1 works) · American Constitutional Law and Politics (1 works) · Computer security (1 works) · Connection (principal bundle) (1 works) · Conversation (1 works) · Death Anxiety and Social Exclusion (1 works) · Denial (1 works)