Definition of "demythologizing" []

• Present participle of demythologize. (verb)

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• "Now, let's look at the critique, or what Dr. Light and Dr. Warburton dub "demythologizing the high cost of pharmaceutical research.""
• "In this attempt at "demythologizing" Buddhism, Batchelor effectively critiques the West's habit of indulging in the "exotic" aspects of Asian culture, even of its religions -- a fetishizing of the East that Edward Said famously termed "Orientalism.""
• "Batchelor is likewise unapologetic about his inclusion of ideas drawn from European thinkers and theologians, from Heidegger and Husserl to Paul Tillich and Rudolf Bultmann, whose approach to "demythologizing" Christianity helped inspire Batchelor's own search for the historical Buddha and his metaphysical weeding-out of the teachings."