Snapeism

== English == === Etymology === From Snape +‎ -ism. === Noun === Snapeism (fandom slang) A new religious movement, emerging in the mid-2000s in online 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. 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]. For more quotations using this term, see Citations:Snapeism. ==== Related terms ==== Snapewife