Foreword / by Jean-Pierre Warnier -- Introduction: Efficacious intimacies of worldmaking / Urmila Mohan -- Inexpressible reading : the efficacious non-discursivity of drinking the Qur'an / Hanna Nieber -- Praying through the hands : making objects and devotees in Umbanda / Patrícia Rodrigues de Souza -- Objects as bodies in Michael Landy's Shelf life / Lindsay Crisp -- "Tisser du lien" : textile art as a tautological performance and embodiment of an expression / Claire Le Pape -- Rituals and riverine flows : negotiating change in Majuli Island, Assam / Simashree Bora -- Protective cloaks, enveloping baby carriers : embodiment and ritual practice in Angkola Batak Ulos textiles / Susan Rodgers -- Kokoro-dzukai as a practice of the heart in Japanese Islam and design / Lira Anindita Utami -- Intimate with the enemy : nuclear presence, vernacular art and post-Chornobyl transformations / Elena Romashko -- What's solid about solidarity? Shields and efficacious intimacy in the 2020 protests in Portland, OR / Steve Marotta -- Grieving as a practice of resistance : Bishnoi entanglements with the Indian nuclear state / Sonali Huria -- Pause, pivot and (un)mask in early pandemic U.S. / Urmila Mohan -- Afterword / Rose Wellman.