Shining Path

Maoist movement in Peru dedicated to violent revolution. It was founded in 1970 by a philosophy professor, Abimael Guzmán Reynoso (b. 1934), as a result of a split in the Peruvian Communist Party. The senderistas began their campaign among the impoverished Indians of the high Andes, attracting sympathizers by their emphasis on the empowerment of Indians at the expense of Peru's traditional elite. They gained control of large areas of Peru through violence and intimidation. By 1992, when Guzmán was captured and their influence began to wane, they had caused an estimated 25,000 deaths and seriously disrupted the Peruvian economy. Their new leader, Oscar Ramirez Durand, was sentenced to life imprisonment in 1999.

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In fiction

• The Shining (novel), a novel by Stephen King
• The Shining (film), a 1980 Stanley Kubrick film adaptation of King's novel starring Jack Nicholson
• The Shining (TV miniseries), a 1997 television mini-series also based on King's novel
• Shining series of video games

In music

• The Shining (band), a band formed from former members of The Verve
• Shining (Swedish band), a Swedish black metal band
• Shining (Norwegian band), a Norwegian experimental collective
• The Shining (album), an album by J Dilla
• Dah Shinin', a 1995 album by hip hop duo Smif-N-Wessun
• "The Shining" (song), a song by Badly Drawn Boy from the album The Hour of Bewilderbeast
• "The Shining" (song), a song by Anorexia Nervosa from the album Redemption Process
• "The Shining" (song), a song by Black Sabbath from the album The Eternal Idol
• "☆shining☆", a song by J-pop artists Riyu Kosaka and Noria

Other uses

• Shining or Spotlighting, a hunting practice

See also

• Shine (disambiguation)