{"id":5473,"date":"2022-04-24T08:37:32","date_gmt":"2022-04-24T06:37:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2022\/04\/24\/carolyn-chen-the-tech-company-offers-the-most-efficient-solution-to-providing-a-meaningful-life\/"},"modified":"2022-04-24T08:37:32","modified_gmt":"2022-04-24T06:37:32","slug":"carolyn-chen-the-tech-company-offers-the-most-efficient-solution-to-providing-a-meaningful-life","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2022\/04\/24\/carolyn-chen-the-tech-company-offers-the-most-efficient-solution-to-providing-a-meaningful-life\/","title":{"rendered":"Carolyn Chen: \u2018The tech company offers the most efficient solution to providing a meaningful life\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A new book exposes Silicon Valley\u2019s use of spiritual concepts and practices to optimise their workers\u2019 productivity<\/p>\n<p>Carolyn Chen is a sociologist and UC Berkeley professor who researches religion, race and ethnicity. Her new book, <em>Work Pray Code: When Work Becomes Religion in Silicon Valley<\/em>, features in-depth interviews with employees and employers to explore how spirituality begets productivity in the world\u2019s tech hub.<\/p>\n<p><strong>As a professor of religion, what sparked your <\/strong><strong>interest in Silicon Valley?<br \/><\/strong>I\u2019ve studied Taiwanese immigrant evangelicals, evangelical Christians, Buddhists in their communities, but I think anyone who lives in a western industrialised country, in a metropolitan area, knows that religion is on the decline in terms of religious affiliation and religious participation. To me, it felt as if there was something missing if I was only capturing people who self-identify as religious. How do we see religion working in the world? What is the contemporary manifestation of religion? I was really interested in looking at the presence of religion in secular spaces.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/money\/2022\/apr\/24\/carolyn-chen-the-tech-company-offers-the-most-efficient-solution-to-providing-a-meaningful-life\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><br \/>\n<img src=\"https:\/\/i.guim.co.uk\/img\/media\/95a8ac4cd2109cb2298afdfbaf1a7f581054d877\/0_604_7841_4707\/master\/7841.jpg?width=140&amp;quality=85&amp;auto=format&amp;fit=max&amp;s=252c55b1bf63af65b611f189461c079e\" title=\"Carolyn Chen: \u2018The tech company offers the most efficient solution to providing a meaningful life\u2019\" \/>A new book exposes Silicon Valley\u2019s use of spiritual concepts and practices to optimise their workers\u2019 productivity<br \/>\nCarolyn Chen is a sociologist and UC Berkeley professor who researches religion, race and ethnicity. Her new book, Work Pray Code: When Work Becomes Religion in Silicon Valley, features in-depth interviews with employees and employers to explore how spirituality begets productivity in the world\u2019s tech hub.<br \/>\nAs a professor of religion, what sparked your interest in Silicon Valley?I\u2019ve studied Taiwanese immigrant evangelicals, evangelical Christians, Buddhists in their communities, but I think anyone who lives in a western industrialised country, in a metropolitan area, knows that religion is on the decline in terms of religious affiliation and religious participation. To me, it felt as if there was something missing if I was only capturing people who self-identify as religious. How do we see religion working in the world? What is the contemporary manifestation of religion? I was really interested in looking at the presence of religion in secular spaces. 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