demythologisation


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Noun1.demythologisation - the restatement of a message (as a religious one) in rational terms
demythologization
faith, religion, religious belief - a strong belief in a supernatural power or powers that control human destiny; "he lost his faith but not his morality"
restatement - a revised statement
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In fact, Flekstival is the aftermath of demystification and demythologisation of festival.
A Study of Festival Theatre to Flekstival Theatre: Emuodje Flekstival of Ekakpamre in Southern Nigeria as a Paradigm
It's a familiar enough trope of New Zealand poetry: the Bible as a dominating feature of a pinched religiosity, a mode of faith which is ripe for ironising, or demythologisation, or re-appropriation.
The Seam of Light: The Bible, the Gospel Hall, the Poet
This striving for the truth, the One, is, Ratzinger asserts, "the definitive demythologisation of the world and religion." (30) It is enlightenment through the truth.
The Promise of Enlightenment and the Incalculability of Freedom: A Consideration of Horkheimer and Adorno's Critique of Enlightenment in Relation to Ratzinger's Notion of Freedom
The demythologisation of welfare is a naming of needs,
Race, debt and the welfare state
On peut le dire sur un mode un peu mineur en reprenant le mot "demythologisation," l'Entmythologisierung des theologiens protestants du debut du vingtieme siecle, Rudolf Bultmann et surtout Karl Barth.
Entretien avec Michel Deguy, a propos des Ecologiques
Mythologie et Demythologisation, Editions du Seuil, Paris, 1968, p.
The Faustian Western spirit and the ecological crisis/L'esprit Faustien occidental et la crise ecologique
Eschatologie et demythologisation. Translated by Andre Malet.
Nothing to do or the invisible ethics

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