In 2018, American religious studies scholar Ivan Strenski confidently proclaimed the failure of the cognitive science of religion as a fact (Strenski, 2018). In his reply to Alessandro Testa’s review of Strenski’s book Understanding Theories of Religion (Strenski, 2015, 2019; Testa, 2019), Strenski passionately repeats his stance against the cognitive science of religion. I am reluctant to reply to Strenski, but do so only because Strenski chose to end his reply to Testa with a broadside against the cognitive science of religion (CSR). Unfortunately, Strenski is obviously ignorant of CSR research. Thus, despite his abusive language, there are a few points in Strenski’s reply that need addressing and, in the process, I will try to impart to the reader the kinds of exciting things that are currently happening in the cognitive science of religion and its promising future.

Et svar til en kritik af den kognitive religionsvidenskab som Ivan Strenski udgav i "Much Ado about Quite a Lot" i tidsskriftet Studi e materiali di storia delle religioni 85 (1) 2019: 365-388 (Dipartimento di Storia, Culture, Religioni: Sapienza - Università di Roma). Svaret rummer desuden en oversigt over de seneste 15 års forskningsresultater inden for den kognitive religionsvidenskab.