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Chen, Carolyn. Work pray code: when work becomes religion in Silicon Valley / Carolyn Chen. — 1 online resource (xi, 254 pages) — <URL:http://elib.fa.ru/ebsco/3032367.pdf>.Record create date: 3/23/2022 Subject: Corporate culture; High technology industries — Employees.; Religion in the workplace; Employees — Religious life.; Culture d'entreprise; Industries de pointe — Personnel.; Religion en milieu de travail; Personnel — Vie religieuse.; Corporate culture.; Employees — Religious life.; High technology industries — Employees.; Religion in the workplace. Collections: EBSCO Allowed Actions: –
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"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." -- front flap dust jacket.
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Table of Contents
- Cover
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction. How Work Is Replacing Religion
- Chapter 1. Losing My Religion . . . and Finding It at Work
- Chapter 2. Corporate Maternalism: Nurturing Body and Soul
- Chapter 3. Managing Souls: The Spiritual Cultivation of Human Capital
- Chapter 4. The Dharma according to Google
- Chapter 5. Killing the Buddha
- Conclusion. Techtopia: Privatized Wholeness and Public Brokenness
- Appendix A. Finding the Sacred in a Secular Valley
- Appendix B. Studying the Souls of Tech Folk
- Notes
- Index
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