Enlightenment

Enlightenment may refer to:

Culture

• Age of Enlightenment, period in Western history and its corresponding movement
• Enlightenment (spiritual), a final blessed state free from ignorance, desire and suffering
• Enlightenment in Western secular tradition
• Enlightenment in Buddhism
• Ionian Enlightenment, the origin of ancient Greek advances in philosophy and science
• 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

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 games

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

Other

• Project Enlightenment, an educational program