The four articles on Thai religion and society published here are revisions of papers originally prepared for panels at the 1972 and 1973 annual meetings of the Association for Asian Studies, held in New York and Chicago, respectively. Contributions were solicited from scholars representing a number of disciplines and regional interests, to survey the variety of approaches being followed and the research being done on “Religious and Social Change in Southeast Asia.” Various circumstances have made it impossible to publish the entire set of panel papers together, as was originally planned; but a list of the participants in the two panels and the topics their papers addressed will reflect the range of religious and social changes underway in Southeast Asia, as well as the diversity of disciplinary interests.