is the place where Americans find their souls? Carolyn Chen organizes (Princeton University Press) around three facets of this question: how the experience of work changes when companies try to fulfill the social, spiritual, and emotional needs of their employees; how religion and spirituality change when they become part of work; and how the “religion of work” is changing the social fabric of America. Chen saves her own interpretation and evaluation of these changes—which she chronicles carefully—for the book’s concluding chapter, where she makes her most incisive and even harrowing claims. Whether or not you’re troubled by the implications of her findings, based on observations of what she calls “Techtopia” in Silicon Valley,
