...This study sheds new light on one of the most spectacular changes to occur in late antiquity—the rise of pilgrimage all over the Christian world—by setting the phenomenon against the wide background of the political and theological debates of the time. Asking how the emerging notion of a sacred...

... of realizing a new master plan to make Hanoi a modern megacity. It also places the discourse of Hanoi urban planning in a theoretical debate about urban religiosity to stress the consequences of urban renewal in Hanoi for sacred geography, national history, and political transition in contemporary Vietnam...