Religious Narratives of Healing and Conversion in a Charismatic Catholic Church in Montevideo: a Brief Approach Magdalena Milsev 1 Received: 3 July 2018 /Accepted: 10 October 2018/ # Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2018 Abstract The paper is based on an ethnography realized in a charismatic catholic Parrish in Montevideo, Uruguay. The first part deals in general terms with the distinct features of this movement as a mixture of Catholicism and Pentecostal Protestantism, its emphasis in emotions and corporal manifestations of the sacred and its conflict relationship with the catholic structures. The second and third parts are about a typical element of Pentecostalism at general level: the healing practices. In this community, they are oriented to generate a whole transformation, insofar they are grounded in a tripartite conceptualization of human beings, where mind, body, and spirit must be attended. In this sense, the Btreatment^ here deals with the suffering as a total experience, giving sense to it through charismatic narratives. To be healed is to be a converted, a person that has reinterpreted her life through the religious expressions given by the community. Charismatic manifestations, therefore, constitute also a way of healing, insofar they are related with the spiritual dimension of the persona, and constitute the strongest evidence of her belonging to the community. They integrate a cosmology where what is conceived as health is a balance between spiritual, corporal, and emotional dimen- sions, which being interrelated, they influence each other. Keywords Charismatic catholic . Religious healing . Conversion . Narratives Introduction This paper is based on an ethnography carried out in the church Jesús Misericodioso de Belén, better known as Parroquia Belen (Belen Parrish), located in Malvín Norte, Montevideo, a neighborhood configured mainly by a population in poverty situation, International Journal of Latin American Religions https://doi.org/10.1007/s41603-018-0061-6 * Magdalena Milsev magdalenams610@gmail.com 1 Maestría en Ciencias Humanas, Facultad de Humanidades y Ciencias de la Educación, Universidad de la República, Montevideo, Uruguay