What Is The Purpose Of Crying?

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Booklet

Publication date:

July 2024

Refuting the cliché that crying is useless, this booklet maintains that, given our current context of insensible neoliberal globalization, public expression of suffering is an essential form of political criticism. This is so not only because weeping reveals to others our interior affliction, but also because our crying together with others and for others turns our mourning into a sign of empathy, protest, criticism, outcry, and resistance.

Modernism & Post-Modernism

Author

José

Laguna

Is married with children, a theologian, and a musician. He holds a degree in Theology from the Centre Sèvres in Paris and a Diploma in Advanced Legal Studies (Jurisprudence). For Cristianisme i Justícia he has written 'What if God was less than perfect ? Towards a kinder spirituality' (Booklet 99, October 2000), 'De la liberación a la inclusión' (Cuaderno 127, September 2004), ‘Taking stock of reality, taking responsability for reality, and taking charge of reality’ (Booklet 143, January 2011) and ‘Evangelical distopias’ (Booklet 148, May 2013).