Snapeism
Snapeism proper noun: 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.
Proper noun
Snapeism
- 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.
- The question of what it takes to be monogamous with Snape is one of the many theological battles that plagued—and eventually destroyed—Snapeism.2014, Zoe Alderton, "'Snapewives' and 'Snapeism': A Fiction-Based Religion within Harry Potter Fandom", Religions, Volume 5, Issue 1, page 220
- 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.2018, Markus Altena Davidsen, “The religious affordance of fiction: a semiotic approach”, in Markus Altena Davidsen, editor, Narrative and Belief: The Religious Affordance of Supernatural Fiction...
Origin of Snapeism
From Snape + -ism.
Questions about Snapeism
- What does Snapeism mean?
- Snapeism means 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.
- What part of speech is Snapeism?
- Snapeism is a proper noun.
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