ABSTRACT
Today the interrelationship between science and religion has assumed special significance, given the rapid communications among cultures based on the sharing of a common scientific technology. We are living in an era when we are faced with profound ethico-religious challenges along with our newly obtained capabilities. This has created an intellectual space where differences and overlaps in the global search for values and norms cannot but be addressed with diligence and vigor. Discussion here focuses not only on empirical studies that show some general differences between Western scientists and their Indian counterparts with regard to their attitudes toward religion but also on key philosophical ideas that have permeated the Indian cultural soil from early times as having a major influence in nourishing that mentality.
