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- Raises important questions about how scientific aims and assumptions can be shaped by culture and influenced by religious views
- Explores the overlap between culture, religion and SETI from the perspective of anthropology
- Challenges several widely held assumptions within the SETI community concerning the nature of contact with an extraterrestrial intelligence
- Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras
Part of the book series: Space and Society (SPSO)
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Table of contents (6 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
About this book
Authors and Affiliations
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Department of Religious Studies, University of Texas at Austin, Austin, USA
John Traphagan
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Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Extraterrestrial Intelligence and Human Imagination
Book Subtitle: SETI at the Intersection of Science, Religion, and Culture
Authors: John Traphagan
Series Title: Space and Society
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-10551-2
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Physics and Astronomy, Physics and Astronomy (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer International Publishing Switzerland 2015
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-10550-5Published: 20 November 2014
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-10551-2Published: 07 November 2014
Series ISSN: 2199-3882
Series E-ISSN: 2199-3890
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: X, 110
Number of Illustrations: 1 illustrations in colour
Topics: Societal Aspects of Physics, Outreach and Education, Popular Science in Astronomy, Religious Studies, general, Anthropology