ISHB New Book Conversation: Carolyn Chen, Professor of Ethnic Studies at UC Berkeley

Work Pray Code: When Work Becomes Religion in Silicon Valley

Please feel invited to attend a conversation with Carolyn Chen on her latest book “Work Pray Code: When Work Becomes Religion in Silicon Valley.” Work Pray Code explores how tech companies are bringing religion into the workplace in ways that are replacing traditional places of worship, blurring the line between work and religion and transforming the very nature of spiritual experience in modern life.

Bio:

Carolyn Chen is Professor of Ethnic Studies at UC Berkeley, Co-Director of the Berkeley Center for the Study of Religion, and Executive Director of the Asian Pacific American Religions Research Initiative. Her research focuses on Asian American religion, as well as religion, spirituality, and work in contemporary America. Carolyn has published three books: Work Pray Code: When Work Becomes Religion in Silicon Valley (Princeton 2022), Getting Saved in America: Taiwanese Immigration and Religious Experience (Princeton 2008) and Sustaining Faith Traditions: Religion, Race and Ethnicity among the Latino and Asian American Second Generation (NYU 2012). Her writing has appeared in the New York Times, Los Angeles Times, CNN, and The Atlantic.