Work Pray Code: When Work Becomes Religion in Silicon Valley - Couverture souple

Chen, Carolyn

 
9780691220888: Work Pray Code: When Work Becomes Religion in Silicon Valley
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ISBN 10 : 0691220883 ISBN 13 : 9780691220888
Editeur : Princeton University Press, 2023

Synopsis

How tech giants are reshaping spirituality to serve their religion of peak productivity

Silicon Valley is known for its lavish perks, intense work culture, and spiritual gurus. 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.

Over the past forty years, highly skilled workers have been devoting more time and energy to their jobs than ever before. They are also leaving churches, synagogues, and temples in droves--but they have not abandoned religion. Carolyn Chen spent more than five years in Silicon Valley, conducting a wealth of in-depth interviews and gaining unprecedented access to the best and brightest of the tech world. The result is a penetrating account of how work now satisfies workers' needs for belonging, identity, purpose, and transcendence that religion once met. Chen argues that tech firms are offering spiritual care such as Buddhist-inspired mindfulness practices to make their employees more productive, but that our religious traditions, communities, and public sphere are paying the price.

We all want our jobs to be meaningful and fulfilling. Work Pray Code reveals what can happen when work becomes religion, and when the workplace becomes the institution that shapes our souls.

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À propos de l?auteur

Carolyn Chen, a sociologist, is professor of ethnic studies at the University of California, Berkeley. She is the author of Getting Saved in America (Princeton) and the coeditor of Sustaining Faith Traditions. She lives in Kensington, California. Website carolynchen.org

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Éditeur
Princeton University Press
Date d'édition
2023
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
0691220883
ISBN 13 
9780691220888
Reliure
Broché
Nombre de pages
272
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ISBN 10 :  0691219087 ISBN 13 :  9780691219080
Editeur : Princeton University Press, 2022
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