When Work Replaces Religion:
A Conversation with Professor Carolyn Chen on Work Pray Code

Please join us for a conversation with UC Berkeley Ethnic Studies Professor Carolyn Chen on her new book — and on what it pushes us to confront.

“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. […] but […] our religious traditions, communities, and public sphere are paying the price.”

Professor Chen's work challenges us to ask what the role of work is in our lives and how work shapes our spiritual development and our social commitments.

Space is limited. Please RSVP below to join.

Location: 2134 Allston Way, 2nd Floor

Time: 5:30pm-7:00pm

Date: Tuesday, April 5th, 2022

  • Carolyn Chen

    Sociologist and Associate Professor of Ethnic Studies at the University of California, Berkeley. The daughter of Taiwanese immigrants, she grew up in Pennsylvania and Southern California. She received her A.B. from Brown University, and her Ph.D. in sociology from UC Berkeley.

    Her research focuses on religion, spirituality, and work in the new economy, as well as Asian American religions. She is the author of Getting Saved in America: Taiwanese Immigration and Religious Experience (Princeton 2008) and co-editor of Sustaining Faith Traditions: Religion, Race and Ethnicity among the Latino and Asian American Second Generation (NYU 2012). Her newest book is Work Pray Code: When Work Becomes Religion in Silicon Valley (Princeton 2022). She is Co-Director of the UC Berkeley Center for the Study of Religion.

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