Roz Kaveney a publié dans le Guardian un article où elle compare fandom et religion.

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Both religion and fandom are characterised by strength of feeling. Both are to a significant degree inhabited by the emotionally needy: and it goes without saying that both have a significant body of sacred writings and a vast amount of commentary thereon. So why is there a clear distinction between religious belief and the fandoms that cluster round various television shows, films and books? […] The other supreme merit of fandoms is that, as a general rule, they do not take themselves too seriously. Even when they do, as with the true believers who interpret subtle nuances of dialogue as coded messages about the passionate love affairs between actors, the damage done is slight.

Roland C.Wagner