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Enlightenment

Conventionally characterised as a Protestant phenomenon, fostered by the Reformation, subsequent to the Renaissance and prior to the Industrial Revolution, during which reason or rationalism innovated political, educational, and religious doctrines. See athenaeum, literature.

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