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Enlightenment may refer to:
Spirituality and religion
- Enlightenment (concept), religious or intellectual
- Mysticism, pursuit of communion with an ultimate reality
History
- 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, The Modern Greek Enlightenment, movement among 18th century Greeks
- Haskalah, Jewish Enlightenment, movement among European Jews in the late 18th century
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
Film and television
- Enlightenment (Doctor Who), a Doctor Who serial
- Enlightenment Guaranteed, 2002 German film
Literature
- Dialectic of Enlightenment, 1944 book by Max Horkheimer and Theodor W. Adorno
- "What is Enlightenment?", 1784 essay by Immanuel Kant
- The Path of Enlightenment, 1977 work by Julius Evola
Music
- Enlightenment (album), 1990 album by Van Morrison
- "Enlightenment" (Van Morrison song), 1990 song by Van Morrison
- 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
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
Other
- Project Enlightenment, an educational program
- Enlighten Harm Reduction, an Australian organisation offering chemical testing services to recreational drug users
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