Secularization and the Loss of Love in Bunyan’s Pilgrim’s Progress

In this paper, I place Bunyan’s popular Pilgrim’s Progress into a cultural context infused with, and informed by, a change from a sacred to secular preunderstanding. I discuss the ways that Bunyan wrestles with these changes in light of Taylor’s work on secularization, and theorize that Bunyan’s tex...

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Main Author: Daniel Boscaljon
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: MDPI AG 2013-12-01
Series:Religions
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Online Access:http://www.mdpi.com/2077-1444/4/4/669