What Happens When Work Becomes Religion

Join New College Berkeley for a conversation with Carolyn Chen. In this conversation, Chen will discuss the themes in her most recent book, Work, Pray, Code: When Work Becomes Religion in Silicon Valley. We will ask deep questions of the kind of human experience we are creating by the merging of religious practices and spirituality with capitalistic values. Together we will consider a way forward that exemplifies a more meaningful sense of belonging, worship, and connection.

Carolyn Chen is Co-Director of the UC Berkeley Center for the Study of Religion, Executive Director of the Asian Pacific American Religions Research Initiative (APARRI), a scholarly community committed to the advancement of public knowledge of Asian Pacific American religions, and is also Associate Professor of Ethnic Studies at the University of California, Berkeley. She also serves as an Advisory Board member for New College Berkeley. Carolyn received her A.B. from Brown University, and her Ph.D. in Sociology from UC Berkeley. Carolyn 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). 

The event is free and open to the public. The event will be live-streamed on YouTube.