Dedication; Acknowledgments; Contents; Chapter 1: Thinking About Religion and Science; 1.1 Foundations for Thinking About SETI: Some Ideas and Assumptions; 1.2 Science and Religion; Chapter 2: A Brief History of Thinking About ETI; 2.1 Narrowing Imagination; 2.2 Expanding Imagination; 2.3 Imagining Aliens; 2.4 It Came From Outer Space; 2.5 It Came from Earth, Too; Chapter 3: Are We Alone? The Emergence of SETI; 3.1 Leaving Earth; 3.2 ETI in the Scientific Imagination: The Drake Equation; 3.3 Civilization?; Chapter 4: Culture, Intelligence, and ETI; 4.1 What Is Culture?

4.2 Implications for SETI Research4.3 The Star Trek Imaginary; 4.4 Symbols and Meaning; Chapter 5: Knowledge Production in the Encounter with Alien Others; 5.1 Ruth Benedict and the Invention of Japanese Culture; 5.2 Implications of Anthropology at a Distance for SETI; 5.3 New Imaginaries; Chapter 6: Religion, Science, Culture, and SETI; 6.1 Science and Religion; 6.2 Is SETI a Religion?; 6.3 SETI, Religion, Imagination; 6.4 SETI and the Western Worldview; References; Index