Definition of "demythologization" []

• The act of demythologizing, or something demythologized. (noun)
• The removal of mythological elements from something, especially from religious writing. (noun)

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• "But if he had studied the matter a little more closely he would have learned that the humanities are remnants of points of view he himself calls "obsolescent," that they changed since the scientific revolution, that by now most of them have been voided of ontological content (in theology this is called demythologization) and can therefore no longer be used as critics of the scientific enterprise."
• "The "demythologization" project as Butlmann applied it for example in his Gifford lectures suffers most of all I think because of a sort of scientism that pervades it."
• "This novella is a deliberate attempt at what Robert M. Price calls "demythologization," but which I think is better expressed as "remythologization" of the Cthulhu Mythos."