Noel Salmond
Humanities, Religion, Associate Professor
- B.F.A. (NSCAD), M.A. (Concordia), Ph.D. (McGill)
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Biography
Educated at Upper Canada College, Bishop鈥檚 University, and the Nova Scotia College of Art and Design, I went on to do an M.A. in the History and Philosophy of Religion at Concordia in Montreal. I studied Christian theology and then Sanskrit at McGill University obtaining my doctorate in Asian religions in 1999. I also studied South Asian art at the School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London and held an internship in the Department of Oriental Antiquities at the British Museum. I have been a faculty research fellow with the Shastri Indo-Canadian Institute in India and a Fellow of the Royal Asiatic Society.
Research Interests
- Religion and visual culture
- Modernist movements in Hinduism and Buddhism
- Religion and discourses on the environment
- Theories of Religion
2024/2025 Courses
HUMS 1000 Foundational Myths and Histories (F/W)
RELI 2510A: Hinduism (F)
RELI 2800A: Indigenous Traditions (F)
HUMS 4903B/RELI 4850B/RELI 5850B Hermeneutics: Interpreting Texts (W)
Publications
Hindu Iconoclasts: Rammohun Roy, Dayananda Sarasvati, and Nineteenth-Century Polemics Against Idolatry. Wilfrid Laurier University Press, 2004.
鈥淩eligion and Art in India: Aesthetic Theories, Iconometric Codes.鈥 Journal of Religion and Culture, Volume 6, (Spring 1992): 123-139.
鈥淎dvaita and Imagery: Sankara on Devotional Objects, and as Himself an Object of Devotion.鈥 Arc 23 (1995): 89-105.
鈥淚conoclast and Idolater: Gandhi on the Worship of Images.鈥 Studies in Religion/Sciences Religieuses 31/3-4 (2002): 373 鈥 390.
鈥淛ulia Butterfly: Environmentalist as Stylite and Ascetic.鈥 Ecotheology: The Journal of Religion, Nature and the Environment. Vol. 11, No. 4 (December, 2006): 465-480.