Enlightenment

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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 in Buddhism
• Enlightenment (spiritual), insight or awakening to the true nature of reality
• Enlightenment in Western secular tradition
• Ionian Enlightenment, the origin of ancient Greek advances in philosophy and science
• "Enlightenment", the main artistic performance in the 2012 Summer Paralympics opening ceremony
• Enlighten Canberra, an annual arts and cultural festival in Canberra, Australia.

Computing

• Enlightenment (software), 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.
• Enlightenment Intensive