This impressive volume presents biographical information about the members of the Society of Jesus, priests as well as brothers, working for the Society in Chile, together with an overview of the available sources about the Society and its activities in that country. The focus is on Jesuits from Germany, Austria and other central European mission houses who were sent to Chile in order to convert the indigenous population to Christianity. The Society of Jesus had already been sent to Chile in 1579 by the Spanish king Philip ii but this attempt failed. In 1590 the king allowed a second attempt and in 1593 a group of missionaries was sent to found the first Jesuit residence. By 1767, when the Jesuits were expelled from every Spanish colony, they had founded twenty-three houses in Chile and one university. Their presence was crucial for Spanish dominance over an indigenous population that had resisted not only the Incan empire but also the Spanish conquest quite successfully for a while. Hence, this compilation of data about their contact with the Jesuits is very important for our understanding of the ‘pacification’ of the Mapuche and the other indigenous peoples of South America. The first 145 pages of the handbook present information about the work of the Jesuits in Chile from the beginning of their missionary work and its first contact to their expulsion. It also includes details about the development of the missionary locations and ethnographic information about the indigenous population, as well as details about the background of the missionaries and their perception of the area and its people. In this sense the volume is important not only for church historians but also for anthropologists interested in the ethnohistory of the indigenous peoples of South America. The second part of the volume (pp. 147–458) lists detailed information about each member of the Society of Jesus working in Chile during this period, including bibliographical information about each of them. As a whole, this handbook will be a valuable source for all historians working on the history of the Jesuits in the Spanish colonies. It offers comprehensive lists of available material about their activities from archives in Rome, Seville, Madrid, Santiago de Chile and Buenos Aires and from private sources in the archives of the Society in Munich, Bamberg and elsewhere.