Sentence examples for making enlightenment from inspiring English sources

Like bindi jewels and the writings of the Dalai Lama, yogic hymns are making enlightenment accessible.

These include "gender equality, a sense of secularism, a true experience of democracy, openness to otherness, all these characteristics that make enlightenment, which I spent most of my life searching for in the world of Islam.

It was the perpetual conversation between technicians and thinkers that made the Enlightenment advance.

It is de rigueur to dismiss Mitford as a reckless amateur who, as someone said, made the Enlightenment philosophes into members of her family.

"Christianity and Judaism have gone through the process of enlightenment, making them creative and constructive elements in society," he said in an interview shortly before his death.

Through his popular plays, his influential work as a dramaturg, and his stormy public debates with orthodox Lutheran clergy, Lessing was a particularly daunting and engaging spokesman for the German Enlightenment, making him all the more dangerous to its opponents.

Making the road to enlightenment look like a very special kind of mental illness, "RevoLOUtion" stumbles from one bewildering scene to another as Lou wanders around Brooklyn, accosting strangers and disrupting traffic.

But contemporary secular society in his bleak novels – defined by extreme inequality, loss of community, narcissistic self-absorption and indifference to suffering – does resemble an impasse that many undergoing their own Enlightenment and making the transition to the disenchanted modern world are seeking to avoid.

An English historian's spirited account of the contributions England made to the Enlightenment.

By Pankaj Mishra Rousseau's lowly background made him the Enlightenment's great outsider.

Sex and science, the great motors of what would later be called the Enlightenment, made the lifetime of Pepys revolutionary.