Eugene Rashkovsky is mostly known for his studies in history of culture, comparative study of civilizations, historiography and history of science. In his interview to the Journal E. Rashkovsky speaks about the interaction between religion and science, which he understands as being a relationship of «conflicting complementarity». He believes that Christianity played an important stimulating role in the genesis of Western science. 

The article covers «traditional» historiography of the Scientific Revolution, from Auguste Comte to Richard Westfall, and sheds light on the positivist sources that inspired its key ideas and practices. The author believes that positivist views neglected the role of religion in the Scientific Revolution. The situation radically changed in the 1960-1970s, when historians started to pay attention to a wide variety of cultural factors that took part both in the process of birth of the modern science and in shaping modernity as a whole.