Sentence examples for promote enlightenment from inspiring English sources

The true story of the medical doctor Johann Friedrich Struensee's efforts to promote Enlightenment ideas in eighteenth-century Denmark is the premise for Nikolaj Arcel's costume drama "A Royal Affair" (Nov. 9).

The repudiation of Hitler and of Stalin runs deep in the principles that are read out in lectures by the teacher, Markvala Razmadze, and copied down by students in tattered notebooks, part of a United Nations-sponsored program to promote enlightenment in the generation coming up in the newly independent states.

By making television programming more respectable, they hope to promote enlightenment and morality, and avoid a cultural decay that, in their minds, has gripped many western nations.

They built up human beings and (promoted) enlightenment, creativity and rebellion.

A sweetly charismatic couple in their mid-50s who could be mistaken for ministers of a Unitarian church, they have hosted full-moon gatherings every month where they and others sermonize, tell stories, sing and play music, recite poetry and otherwise try to promote spiritual enlightenment.

At first these magazines emphasized features that promoted improvement, enlightenment, and family entertainment, but, toward the end of the century, they evolved into popular versions that aimed at providing amusement.

He put forward the harmonious domestic family as a new cultural ideal and stigmatized ancien régime society, with its emphasis on fashion and its influential "public women," such as royal mistresses and the salon hostesses who played a critical role in promoting the Enlightenment.

Like Falun Gong, Zhong Gong was started by a charismatic individual with his own embellished variant of traditional qi concepts, offering meditative exercises to promote health and enlightenment.

Zhong Gong -- its full name translates as China Health Care and Wisdom Enhancement Practice -- is one of the largest of many groups that arose in the last two decades using traditional concepts of qi (energy) in gong (ritual exercises) to promote health and enlightenment.

The theistic view promoted by the Enlightenment in many European and Latin American countries not only separated religious beliefs from the power structure of the Catholic Church but, equally significant, contributed to develop a secular and evolutionary description of nature and society.

All the Enlightenment did was to promote religion by other means, and its belief in progress was only the Christian message "emptied of transcendence and mystery".