New Books by BC Faculty Series: Labor Evangelicals: Faith, Authority, and Resistance at Work

Join us for a conversation with Associate Professor of Political Science Ken Estey, author of Labor Evangelicals,  and Professor of Sociology Timothy Shortell.

Estey’s recent book studies theologically conservative working-class evangelicals in the United States who resist the common preconception that they eagerly embrace deregulation, unfettered markets, and globalized capital. This book studies evangelical workers at the grassroots level to discern the complexity of their perspectives about work, unions, class, and power. It shows how White and African American evangelicals think about labor in working-class communities in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, and Moncure, North Carolina.

Ken Estey, director of the Studies in Religion Program, centers his research on the intersection of politics and religion with a particular focus on labor and Christianity. He is also the author of A New Protestant Labor Ethic at Work.

Timothy Shortell, professor of data analysis and visualization at the CUNY Graduate Center, is a computational social psychologist who studies identity and belonging using large corpus quantitative methods. His current research focuses on U.S. evangelicals and the emergence of Christian nationalism.

Food and refreshments will be served.

Library Guide with free electronic access to the book: is available here.