Snapeism

English Etymology From en Snape ism. Proper noun en fandom slang A new religious movement, emerging in the mid-2000s in online Harry Potter Harry Potter fandom, centered on the fictional character Severus Snape, with its female adherents professing a spiritual connection or astral marriage to him. 2014, Zoe Alderton, "'Snapewives' and 'Snapeism': A Fiction-Based Religion within Harry Potter Fandom", Religions, Volume 5, Issue 1, page 220: The question of what it takes to be monogamous with Snape is one of the many theological battles that plagued—and eventually destroyed—Snapeism. en 2018 Markus Altena Davidsen The religious affordance of fiction: a semiotic approach Narrative and Belief: The Religious Affordance of Supernatural Fiction Markus Altena Davidsen https://books.google.com/books?id=SjOoDwAAQBAJ&pg=PT135&lpg=PT135&dq=%22Snapewife+community,+a+group+of+women+who+have+claimed+that+Snape+%22 unnumbered Alderton argues that Snapeism is a fiction-based religion, but the evidence she presents demonstrates that it is a very poor example of the category. 2023, Samuli Laato, Sampsa Rauti, & Juho Hamari, "Resemblance of religion and pervasive games: A study among church employees and gamers", CHI '23: Proceedings of the 2023 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, April 2023, unnumbered page: However, Harry Potter fans have also formed religious cults of their own, one of the most popular examples being "Snapeism", a religion focused around the character of Severus Snape [2]. en Related terms en Snapewife en eponyms en Harry Potter Religion