Workshop 2014 (8 of 11) | John Dunne | Scientific Research on Meditation and the Cognitive Science of Religion: Anything Shared?
Scientific research on meditation has grown exponentially in the last two decades, yet that research often remains disconnected from the academic study of religion. Likewise, cognitive scientific approaches to religion often seem irrelevant to the scientific study of meditation. Why do these fields of research largely fail to interact, and what does it tell us about our notion of religion?