demythologize

VERB
  1. remove the mythical element from (writings)
    the Bible should be demythologized and examined for its historical value

How To Use demythologize In A Sentence

  • to demythologize the presidency.
  • Even as they have been mythologized by the many, they have been demythologized by at least a few.
  • He is very much a demythologizer of political and media processes, and treats Joe Schmoe American with the same respect as he treats heads of state and Nobel laureates. Archive 2009-03-01
  • The abolition of the totalitarian state has demythologized the state and thereby liberated man, as well as politicians and politics. Insight Scoop | The Ignatius Press Blog:
  • I think that in whatever we can - in whatever way we can, we do want to demythologize the illness.
  • There is a fundamental paradox in Heidegger: he tries to maintain the ethos of the mythic (the sentimentality about pre-industrial rural life) in a demythologized world of capitalist exchange value.
  • the Bible should be demythologized and examined for its historical value
  • Kant's demythologized religion was not uncommon among his contemporaries.
  • In a real sense, Obama has been demythologized and demystified, and we hate it when we can see the wizard's feet behind the curtain. Christopher Cocca: Updating The Hero Myth Of Barack Obama
  • Man would be free, he said, if we could demythologize religion.
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