Description: Urmila Mohan draws on her ethnography of Hindu devotional practices in Iskcon, India, to explore cloth and clothing as "efficacious intimacy", that is, embodied processes that shape practitioners as devotees, connecting them with the divine and the larger community.
Brief description: Urmila Mohan, Ph.D. (2015, University College London), is an anthropologist of material culture. She authored Fabricating Power with Balinese Textiles (2018), and co-edited "The Bodily and Material Cultures of Religious Subjectivation" (Journal of Material Culture, 2017); The Material Subject: Rethinking Subjects Through Objects and Praxis (2020).