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neomythology

neomythology noun: new mythology.

Noun

neomythology (countable and uncountable, plural neomythologies)

  1. New mythology.
    • There exist contemporary aremi sung in Spanish and based on a Christianized “neomythology” of Dioso, a god miraculously conceived in the womb of a girl by the snake master of the water domain.1988, Lawrence E[ugene] Sullivan, Icanchu’s Drum: An Orientation to Meaning in South American Religions, New York, N.Y.: Macmillan Publishing Company; London: Collier Macmillan Publishers, →ISBN...
    • Heidegger’s Denkweg traces a path from demythologizing the mythic world of the scriptures to remythologizing the world in the accents of a Greek neomythology.1993, John D[avid] Caputo, Demythologizing Heidegger, Bloomington, Ind.; Indianapolis, Ind.: Indiana University Press, →ISBN, pages 169–170

Examples of neomythology in a sentence

  • The creation of neomythology “feeds on” religion but as a world outlook and a form-giving force.1995, Iaroslava Boubnova, “No One Has Ever Seen God”, in Beyond Belief: Contemporary Art from East Central Europe, Museum of Contemporary...
  • It evokes the journey of the life-struggle via collective symbols and neomythology to connect the individual soul to the soul of the universe.1999, “Latin American Women Artists”, in Phoebe Farris, editor, Women Artists of Color: A Bio-Critical Sourcebook to 20th Century Artists...
  • This neomythology is conversely a product of global entertainment and market forces that in turn reimagine cultural identities which inevitably feed the quest for universals and ‘deep structures’.2012, Marcus Cheng Chye Tan, Acoustic Interculturalism: Listening to Performance, Palgrave Macmillan, →ISBN, pages 210–211:

Forms of neomythology

pluralneomythologies
alternative formneo-mythology

Origin of neomythology

From neo- + mythology.

Questions about neomythology

What does neomythology mean?
Neomythology means new mythology.
How do you use neomythology in a sentence?
The creation of neomythology “feeds on” religion but as a world outlook and a form-giving force.
What part of speech is neomythology?
Neomythology is a noun.
What is the plural of neomythology?
The plural of neomythology is neomythologies.

Words near neomythology in the dictionary

  1. neomyocytes
  2. neomyofiber
  3. neomyofibers
  4. neomythological
  5. neomythologies
  6. neomythology
  7. neon
  8. neon fish
  9. neon fishes
  10. neon flying squid
  11. neon flying squids

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