mythology has definitions from the field of anthropology
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[ noun ] myths collectively; the body of stories associated with a culture or institution or person

Used in print

(Schubert Ogden, Christ Without Myth....)

His point is not that mythology may_not be used , but that it may no_longer be regarded_as the only or even the most appropriate conceptuality for expressing the Christian kerygma .

Time_and_again in counseling and teaching , one encounters members of this group whose attempts to bring into some kind of unity the insubstantial mythologies of their `` fundamentalist '' heritage and the stubborn reality of the modern_world are only_too painfully obvious .

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[ noun ] (anthropology) the study of myths

Related terms

social_anthropology

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