Enlightenment

Look up enlightenment or Enlightenment in Wiktionary, the free dictionary.

Enlightenment may refer to:

Culture

• Age of Enlightenment, period in Western intellectual history from the late 17th to the late 18th century, centered in France but also encompassing:
  • Scottish Enlightenment, period in 18th century Scotland
  • American Enlightenment, intellectual culture of the British North American colonies and the early United States
  • Enlightenment in Poland, ideas of the Age of Enlightenment in Poland
  • Catholic Enlightenment, movement within Catholicism to find answers to the secularism of the Enlightenment
  • Russian Enlightenment, a period in the eighteenth century in which the government in Russia began to actively encourage the proliferation of arts and sciences
  • Enlightenment in Spain, Bourbon period of reform and 'enlightened despotism'
  • Modern Greek Enlightenment, an 18th-century national revival and educational movement in Greece
  • Haskalah, Jewish Enlightenment, movement among European Jews in the late 18th century

• Enlightenment (spiritual), insight or awakening to the true nature of reality
  • Enlightenment in Buddhism
• Enlightenment in Western secular tradition
• "Enlightenment", the main artistic performance in the 2012 Summer Paralympics opening ceremony

• Ionian Enlightenment, the origin of ancient Greek advances in philosophy and science

Computing

• Enlightenment (window manager), an X Window System window manager
• Enlightenment Foundation Libraries, software libraries that grew out of the Enlightenment window manager project
• Enlightened Sound Daemon, the sound server for the Enlightenment window manager
• Enlighten (radiosity engine), code to do real-time calculation of indirect lighting ("radiosity") in video

Film and television

• Enlightened (TV series), a 2011 HBO comedy series starring Laura Dern
• Enlightenment (Doctor Who), a 1983 Doctor Who serial

Music

• Enlightenment (Van Morrison album), 1990
• Enlightenment (McCoy Tyner album), 1973
• "Enlightenment" (Van Morrison song), 1990
• Enlightened (album), a 2007 album by Dynamic Duo
• Enlightenment (soundtrack album), the soundtrack of the 2012 Summer Paralympics opening ceremony

Other

• Project Enlightenment, an educational program
• Enlighten Brick, a brick-based construction toy line by Concord Toys International Ltd.
• Enlighten Harm Reduction, a harm reduction organisation based in Melbourne.

This disambiguation page lists articles associated with the same title. If an internal link led you here, you may wish to change the link to point directly to the intended article.