It's a weird area. There's a continuum between research in Buddhism and research in psychology & psychotherapy, and in the middle you get journals like Psychology of Religion and Spirituality or Mental Health, Religion, and Culture. Interdisciplinary research, for various reasons, just seems so difficult, journals that cover interdisciplinary topics are not as prestigious, and most researchers are loathe to give up their specialty even though they agree that interdisciplinary research is important.
I've seen some articles in these interdisciplinary journals that talk about MBIs and have citations that point towards western clinical practices as well as citations that point towards Buddhist texts... and I find it difficult to follow the citations in both directions.
It reminds me a bit of the divides between machine learning and statistics, or biostatistics and clinical research, etc. Someone who does clinical research will say, "Yes, biostatistics is very important," and then turn around and run another clinical study without talking to their colleagues at the same university in the biostatistics department.
I've seen some articles in these interdisciplinary journals that talk about MBIs and have citations that point towards western clinical practices as well as citations that point towards Buddhist texts... and I find it difficult to follow the citations in both directions.
It reminds me a bit of the divides between machine learning and statistics, or biostatistics and clinical research, etc. Someone who does clinical research will say, "Yes, biostatistics is very important," and then turn around and run another clinical study without talking to their colleagues at the same university in the biostatistics department.