For her, this model gives us a contemporary context within which to
remythologize Christian faith, (16) and a working cosmology as a way to know where we belong.
On the Spaghetti Westerns as an attempt to demythologize the American Western and, then,
remythologize it for Italian audiences, see Christopher Frayling, Spaghetti Westerns: Cowboys and Europeans from Karl May to Sergio Leone (London: Routledge and Kegan Paul, 1981).
Though students of Bultmann appreciated his attempts to "demythologize" Scripture, most eventually came to the conclusion that those for whom those writings were originally composed had to go one step further: to "
remythologize" the text.
"We must demythologize," was his favorite phrase, with which many Marxists would agree; but few of them would concur with the rider with which Kearney invariably followed it, "so that we can
remythologize." That remythologizing is conducted in the utopian space of a fifth province of Irish writing from Burke to Beckett (or, as Ricoeur would have called it, a "'third secularism," neither of state nor of civil society, but of the community itself).
And it is such strong artistic patterning that, in his view, "allows the reader to
remythologize" despite Murdoch's "fictional attempts at demythologization" (91).
"Metaphorical theology is a kind of heuristic construction that in focusing on the imaginative construal of the God-world relationship, attempts to
remythologize Christian faith through metaphors and models ..." (McFague, 1987:40).
Using narrative, anecdotes and quotations, Needleman tells of America's founding in an emotional way that points to how we can
remythologize our national story.
In all Tournier's work, it is as though on one hand he longs to diagram the world, to reduce it to schemata, and on the other, taking up again these old stories, somehow to
remythologize them, to make them large again.
They embrace the catastrophe because they're keen to
remythologize themselves, and rediscover the different world that lies beyond the transformation.
When fundamental change is desired, retelling the myths of origin enables the company, as Will McWhinney says, to "
remythologize" and thereby gain freedom to redirect the organization without denying the founding cause.(2) The founding myth of service in the Bell System was rejected for efficiency and profitability.