Opposed to or against formal religious rituals, ceremonies, and liturgical worship practices.
From anti- (against) plus liturgic, from Greek 'liturgia' (public service or worship). The term emerged in religious and theological discourse to describe movements opposing structured ceremonial worship.
Some of history's most intense religious conflicts were between antiliturgic reformers and liturgical traditionalists—the Protestant Reformation had huge antiliturgic elements, with reformers smashing stained glass and organs they saw as distractions from pure faith.
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