The return / by Mark Mustian T.

With hard-and supercover

To G.L.S.

Reporter Michael Mason's search for glimpses of God has uncovered dozens of fraudulent claims, including twenty-six false messiahs. The black Brazilian woman follows the messianic template: the hype, the healings, the adulation. Her control and dominance over the mammoth crowd at a Sao Paulo service surprises Mason. Is it the usual self-delusion? Hypnotism on a mass scale? Or perhaps, this time, the real thing: the