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Carolyn Chen @WorkPrayCode

Work Pray Code author

Joined March 2022
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So thrilled about about this new grant to advance the study of Asian Pacific American religions at UC Berkeley! bcsr.berkeley.edu/news/bcsr-…

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I love the quote the Guardian pulled out for their interview with me on Work Pray Code! theguardian.com/money/2022/a…

Carolyn Chen: ‘The tech company offers the most efficient solution to providing a meaningful life’

A new book exposes Silicon Valley’s use of spiritual concepts and practices to optimise their workers’ productivity

theguardian.com
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Grace Cathedral@gracecathedral
24 Mar 2022
This Sunday at 9:30 am, join @WorkPrayCode and Dean @MalcolmYoung for a conversation about what can happen when work becomes religion, and the workplace becomes the institution that connects us. See you there! 🎟️:bit.ly/3iAtFP4
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Carolyn Chen@WorkPrayCode
26 Mar 2022
Replying to @MalcolmYoung
Can't wait to discuss my book with you tomorrow!
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Check out my new article in The Atlantic on worshiping work! theatlantic.com/culture/arch…

What the Anti-work Discourse Gets Wrong

Tech companies are offering spiritual care to make employees more productive, and it’s likely a sign of what’s to come in other industries.

theatlantic.com
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Princeton University Press@PrincetonUPress
16 Mar 2022
Read more from Carolyn Chen, author of Work Pray Code, about how tech companies bring religion into the workplace, replacing traditional worship, blurring the line between work and religion and transforming the spiritual experience. princeton.press/xp3zux @WorkPrayCode
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How Silicon Valley taught America to treat work as a religion nypost.com/2022/03/12/how-si… via @nypost

How Silicon Valley taught America to treat work as a religion

How Silicon Valley taught America to treat work as a religion.

nypost.com
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Techtopia: Privatized Wholeness and Public Brokenness boomcalifornia.org/2022/03/1… An excerpt from the conclusion of Work Pray Code in Boom California!

Techtopia: Privatized Wholeness and Public Brokenness

Carolyn Chen What happens to society when its members worship work? Silicon Valley offers us an answer. The tech industry has created what I call Techtopia, one of its most disruptive innovations y…

boomcalifornia.org
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Carolyn Chen@WorkPrayCode
10 Mar 2022
In Big Tech, work is religion think.kera.org/2022/03/09/in…

In Big Tech, work is religion - Think

Carolyn Chen discusses her research in Silicon Valley, where she found spiritual practices like mindfulness are used to increase production while affiliations with places of worship outside the...

think.kera.org
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Andrew Keen
@ajkeen
9 Mar 2022
Carolyn Chen on How Tech Giants Are Reshaping Spirituality to Serve Their Religion of Productivity | Keen On x.com/i/broadcasts/1BdxYwgEd…
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Princeton University Press@PrincetonUPress
9 Mar 2022
Work Pray Code author Carolyn Chen spoke with @RNS about where Americans’ religious impulses have reemerged: at work. Read the full interview here: hubs.ly/Q015Hybb0

How Silicon Valley's 'Techtopia' turned work into religion

(RNS) — In her new book, 'Work Pray Code: When Work Becomes Religion in Silicon Valley,' Carolyn Chen examines how high-skilled workers have disinvested from organized religion and are instead...

religionnews.com
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Princeton University Press@PrincetonUPress
8 Mar 2022
For @LAReviewofBooks, Fred Turner reviews Work Pray Code by Carolyn Chen: “Work Pray Code presents an extraordinarily fine-grained map of the traffic between religion and profit-seeking among Silicon Valley’s elite.” hubs.ly/Q015DHD90

Putting California Buddhism to Work in Silicon Valley | Los Angeles Review of Books

Fred Turner describes “Work Pray Code” as a fine-grained map of the traffic between religion and profit-seeking in Silicon Valley.

lareviewofbooks.org
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Princeton University Press@PrincetonUPress
8 Mar 2022
Carolyn Chen, author of Work Pray Code, speaks with @TheDealNewsroom’s David Marcus about her new book, and work and religion in Silicon Valley: podcast.thedeal.com/1483387/…

Drinks With The Deal: Author Carolyn Chen - The Deal by S&P Global

UC Berkeley professor Carolyn Chen discusses her new book 'Work Pray Code: When Work Becomes Religion in Silicon Valley,' in which she argues that companies have replaced religious institutions as...

podcast.thedeal.com
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