Science is interested in the material world, as you said. It doesn't deal with the immaterial, obviously. I don't see an inherent contradiction between a faith in in the immaterial and the study of the material. They are entirely different realms. Problems only arise when one tries to apply the faith to the material world and science to the immaterial.
Or to paraphrase some theologians, "science explains the reason for how the world operates, religion tries to explore the 'meaning'."