This is an interview with a known Russian philosopher Ilia Kasavin, a specialist in epistemology and philosophy of culture and religion. Dr. Kasavin deals with two issues. One is history of philosophical research of these subjects in the USSR and in post-Soviet Russia, in which he was directly involved. The second concerns major trends in perception of religious, mythological and magical worldviews within the philosophy of knowledge. The interaction between science and non-science were complex in the Middle Ages and Early Modern times, but this interaction, if mostly in hidden form, does persist even now when the hegemony of science is questioned.