mythicism

(in particular) The opinion that Jesus of Nazareth did not exist.

(theology) The scholarly opinion that the gospels are mythological expansions of historical data.

The view that a certain figure or event is unhistorical or mythical, chiefly in the context of pseudo-scholarship.

The habitual practice of attributing everything to mythological causes; superstition, the opposite of rationalism, or of realism.

The creative potential for the creation of mythology; the faculty of mythopoeia.