Enlightenment

Enlightenment or enlighten may refer to:

Age of Enlightenment

The Age of Enlightenment, period in Western intellectual history from the late 17th to late 18th century, centered in France but also encompassing other contexts:

• Arab Enlightenment or Nahda, late 19th to early 20th century
• China: May Fourth Movement, in the 1920s, and the New Enlightenment, in the 1980s
• England: Midlands Enlightenment, period in 18th-century England
• Greece: Modern Greek Enlightenment, an 18th-century national revival and educational movement in Greece
• Italy: Italian Enlightenment, period in 18th-century Italy
• Jewish: Haskalah, Jewish Enlightenment, movement among European Jews in the late 18th century
• Poland: Enlightenment in Poland, ideas of the Age of Enlightenment in Poland
• Russia: Russian Enlightenment, 18th-century period of active government encouragement of proliferation of arts and sciences in Russia
• Scotland: Scottish Enlightenment, period in 18th-century Scotland
• Spain: Enlightenment in Spain, came to Spain with a new dynasty, the Bourbons, subsequent reform and 'enlightened despotism'
• United States: American Enlightenment, intellectual culture of the British North American colonies and the early United States

Religion

• Enlightenment in Buddhism, translation of the term bodhi ("awakening")
• Moksha
• Moksha (Jainism)
• Kevala jnana, awakened knowledge in Jainism
• Divine illumination

Computing

• Enlightenment (window manager), an X Window System window manager
• Enlighten (radiosity engine), code to do real-time calculation of indirect lighting ("radiosity") in video
• Enlightenment Foundation Libraries, a set of graphics libraries

Events

• Enlighten Canberra, an annual arts and cultural festival in Canberra, Australia
• "Enlightenment", the main artistic performance in the 2012 Summer Paralympics opening ceremony

Film and television

• Enlightenment (Doctor Who), a 1983 Doctor Who serial

Music

• Enlightenment (Van Morrison album), 1990
• Enlightenment (McCoy Tyner album), 1973
• "Enlightenment" (Van Morrison song), 1990
• Enlightenment (soundtrack album), the soundtrack of the 2012 Summer Paralympics opening ceremony

Other uses

• Ionian Enlightenment, the origin of ancient Greek advances in philosophy and science
• Dark Enlightenment, an anti-democratic and reactionary movement that broadly rejects egalitarianism and Whig historiography
• Enlightenment Intensive, a group retreat designed to enable a spiritual enlightenment
• Enlightenment Movement (Afghanistan), a Hazara grassroots civil disobedience group created in Afghanistan in 2016
• Project Enlightenment, an educational program

See also

• Counter-Enlightenment, a term used by some 20th century commentators to describe contemporary reasoned opposition to the Age of Enlightenment
• All pages with titles beginning with Enlighten
• Enlightened (disambiguation)
• Illumination (disambiguation)