Enlightenment

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Contents 1 Spirituality and religion 2 History 3 Computing 4 Film and television 5 Music 6 Philosophy and politics 7 Other 8 See also

Enlightenment may refer to:

[edit] Spirituality and religion

• Enlightenment (concept), religious or intellectual
• Mysticism, pursuit of communion with an ultimate reality

[edit] History

• Ionian Enlightenment, the origin of ancient Greek advances in philosophy and science
• Age of Enlightenment, period in Western history and its corresponding movement
• 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 Spain, Bourbon period of reform and 'enlightened despotism'
• Counter-Enlightenment, movement that arose in the late-eighteenth and early-nineteenth centuries in opposition to the eighteenth century Enlightenment
• Diafotismos, an 18th century national revival and educational movement in Greece
• Haskalah, Jewish Enlightenment, movement among European Jews in the late 18th century

[edit] 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

[edit] Film and television

• Enlightenment (Doctor Who), a Doctor Who serial
• Enlightenment Guaranteed, 2002 German film

[edit] Music

• Enlightenment (album), 1990 album by Van Morrison
• "Enlightenment" (Van Morrison song), 1990 song by Van Morrison
• Enlightenment, 2003 album by Gingger Shankar
• Enlightened Rogues, 1979 album by The Allman Brothers Band
• enLighten, XM Satellite Radio Christian music channel
• Enlighten Me, 2002 album by Masterplan
• Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment, British period instrument orchestra

[edit] Philosophy and politics

• Enlightened self-interest, philosophy in ethics
• Enlightened absolutism, benevolent despotism, form of absolute monarchy
• Enlightened Moderation, Pervez Musharraf's vision of a personal philosophy for Muslims

[edit] Other

• Project Enlightenment, an educational program
• Enlighten Harm Reduction, an Australian organisation offering chemical testing services to recreational drug users

[edit] See also

• Illumination (disambiguation)

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