Relationships between Religious and Scientific Worldviews in the Narratives of Western Buddhists Reporting Meditation-Related Challenges
Relationships between religious and scientific worldviews are important factors in exploring meditation-related challenges for Western Buddhist meditators. Interviews with sixty-eight meditators and thirty-three meditation experts were analyzed to examine how they understand these relationships, which were observed to be conflicting, compatible, nested, discrete, and complementary. These dynamics suggest an expansion of existing understandings of the relationships between science and religion as they apply to Buddhist meditators.