This week's meta focuses on deities and divinity in fantasy/sci-fi.
What cultural elements need to be taken into account in the construction of a religious system? What are the implications of writing deities who manifest and are involved in the storyline? How does the presence or absence of magic/higher technology impact different worlds' perceptions of powerful deities? What sources have you read/seen which have made especially good use of another world's potential to build complex religious systems? How do these constructed systems interact with and/or comment on the systems of our world?