god-making

Frazer's "Golden Bough" will find the whole god-making process set forth with a wealth of illustration that can hardly fail to carry conviction.

Theism or Atheism The Great Alternative Chapman Cohen

But the process of god-making did not end with the appearance of men, for great chiefs and warriors after death became kalou yalo, or spirits, and often remained upon earth a menace to the unwary who might offend them.

Popular Science Monthly Oct, Nov, Dec, 1915 — Volume 86 Anonymous

The crucified Saviour, in honour of whom all the Christian cathedrals and churches of the world are built, is only another late survival of the god-making practice of primitive savagery.

Theism or Atheism The Great Alternative Chapman Cohen

But the main cause is that students of Egyptian lore have hitherto had no inkling of the principle of monosexual dominance and of its significance in relation to the process of god-making.

The Dominant Sex: A Study in the Sociology of Sex Differentiation, by Mathilde and Mathias Vaerting; translated from the German by Eden and Cedar Paul 1923

But the process of god-making did not end with the appearance of men, for great chiefs and warriors after death became kalou yalo, or spirits, and often remained upon earth a menace to the unwary who might offend them.

The Scientific Monthly, October-December 1915 Scientific Monthly 1915

If his conclusions are absurd, they are what might be anticipated when man engages in the task of god-making.

A Hero and Some Other Folks 1892

Scholars do not seem to me to have reckoned sufficiently with the tendency of a legal priesthood, devoted to the strict maintenance of religious minutiae, to elaborate and organise the material for god-making which was within their reach.

The Religious Experience of the Roman People From the Earliest Times to the Age of Augustus W. Warde Fowler 1884

The second class of Roman divinities were those manufactured by the pontiffs for utilitarian purposes, -- almost the only instance in the history of religion of such a deliberate piece of god-making.

Ten Great Religions An Essay in Comparative Theology James Freeman Clarke 1849

One tradesman encourages another to come into a confederacy for the keeping up of the noble craft of god-making.

Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume IV (Isaiah to Malachi) 1721

And that god-making power that is in the Pope f and his cardinals to canonize any deceafed perfon

An Illustration of the Doctrines of the Christian Religion: With Respect to Faith and Practice ... 1773