Editing The Pilgrim's Progress (section)

=== Foreign-language versions ===
[[File:Sentebele-Pilgrim-Progress.jpg|thumb|left|African version of ''Pilgrim's Progress'' from 1902]]

"''The Pilgrim's Progress'' has been translated into 200 languages", including Dutch in 1681, German in 1703, and Swedish in 1727, as well as over eighty African languages.{{which|date=October 2021}}<ref>{{Cite book|title=Books : a living history|last=Martyn.|first=Lyons|date=2011|publisher=J. Paul Getty Museum|isbn=978-1606060834|location=Los Angeles|oclc=707023033}}</ref> In 1681, the first North American edition was issued. In addition, there were nine translations in Southeast Asia, twenty four translations in South Asia, and another eleven in Australasia and the Pacific.<ref name=":1">{{Cite book|title=Books A Living History|publisher=Thames & Hudson|year=2013|isbn=9780500291153|pages=118–120|language=English}}</ref> Beginning in the 1850s, illustrated versions of ''The Pilgrim's Progress'' in Chinese were printed in [[Hong Kong]], [[Shanghai]] and [[Fuzhou]] and widely distributed by Protestant missionaries. [[Hong Xiuquan]], the leader of the Christianity-inspired [[Taiping Rebellion]], declared that the book was his favorite reading.<ref>[[Jonathan D. Spence]], ''God's Chinese Son'', 1996. pp. 280–282</ref>

[[Henry Alfred Krishnapillai]]'s [[magnum opus]], ''Ratchanya Yaathrigam'' (The Journey of Salvation) is an adaptation of ''The Pilgrim's Progress'' in the [[Tamil language]] and is considered one of the finest Tamil literary works of the 19th century. ''Paradeshi Mokshayathra'' by Rev. [[Arch Deacon Koshy|K. Koshy]]/Rev. Joseph Peet (1844), and ''Sanchariyude Prayanam'' (1846) by Rev. C. Muller/Rev. P. Chandran are allegorical translations in [[Malayalam]] and are one of the [[Malayalam literature#Early prose literature|earliest prose works]] in the language.<ref>{{Cite book |last=Guptan Nair |first=S. |url=https://catalog.uoc.ac.in/cgi-bin/koha/opac-detail.pl?biblionumber=84489&query_desc=kw%252Cwrdl%253A%2520S.%2520Guptan%2520Nair |title=Gadyam Pinnitta Vazhikal |date=2001 |publisher=D. C. Books |isbn=9788126403332 |location=Kottayam |pages=41–42 |authorlink=S. Guptan Nair}}</ref>

In Turkish, translations of the book appeared in Greek script in 1879, and in Armenian script in 1881.

The literal textual meaning of ''The Pilgrim's Progress'' was also adapted by young converts and missionaries to make sense in different cultural contexts.<ref name=":1" /> "For example, Kele Protestants in the Congo omitted the sections that explained original sin" since "this idea was incompatible with their cultural assumptions."<ref name=":1" /> ''The Pilgrim's Progress'' was also adapted to be relevant for non-Europeans, by tailoring the story to make sense of their own experiences. Heaven was often a place designed to resemble what they had gone through in life. For example, in the American Southern Black culture, Bunyan was changed to be a black protagonist who "was redeemed not only from sin but also slavery."<ref name=":1" /> Similarly, a version was written where the [[Apartheid|injustices which took place]] in South Africa were reformulated.<ref>Hofmeyr, I. (2002). Dreams, Documents and 'Fetishes': African Christian Interpretations of The Pilgrim's Progress. ''Journal of Religion in Africa'', ''32''(4), pp. 440–455.</ref>

There are collections of old foreign language versions of ''The Pilgrim's Progress'' at both the [[Moot Hall, Elstow|Moot Hall Museum]] in Elstow, and at the [[John Bunyan Museum]] in Mill Street in Bedford.