Abstract for Online Program Book (maximum 150 words)
This roundtable thinks with Ken Estey's Labor Evangelicals: Faith, Authority, and Resistance at Work (Palgrave Macmillan, 2024) as a springboard to broader consideration of evangelicals' engagement with work, unions, class, workplace power, and political power. The 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. Through ethnographic methods, it shows how white and African American evangelicals think about labor in working-class communities in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania and Moncure, North Carolina.