Note: I am an atheist, but "Jesus and The Disinherited"[0] was a very influential book for me. I read it after seeing this review[1] by Chris Blattman, social scientist at columbia.

It helped me understand the relationship between fear, oppression, hatred and crime.

It also gave me renewed disdain for the evangelical (as in, spreading of gospel) european and american tradition, a disdain which is probably shared by the author.

Before reading the book, I had never really "understood" Martin Luther King Jr. How could it be morally right to want to integrate, forgive and even love one's oppressors? I feel like I have a better understanding of the civil rights movement in the US, and perhaps a slightly more optimistic view of the future.

[0]: http://www.amazon.com/Jesus-Disinherited-Howard-Thurman/dp/0... [1]: https://chrisblattman.com/2015/09/29/fear-and-what-a-centuri...