Citations:Snapeism

Proper noun: "(fandom slang) a new religious movement of the mid-2000s centered on Severus Snape of the Harry Potter series..."

 * 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.
 * 2016, Alexander Maistrovoy, Agony of Hercules or a Farewell to Democracy (Notes of a Stranger), unnumbered page:
 * There is ' Snapeism ', which claims to be recognized as an official organized religion (Severus Snape is the character Harry Potter book).
 * 2018, Markus Altena Davidsen, "The religious affordance of fiction: a semiotic approach", in Narrative and Belief: The Religious Affordance of Supernatural Fiction (ed. Markus Altena Davidsen), unnumbered page:
 * 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].