Noel Salmond
Associate Professor
| Phone: | 613-520-2600 x 8162 |
| Email: | noel.salmond@carleton.ca |
| Office: | 2A38 Paterson Hall |
Biography
Educated at Upper Canada College, Bishop’s 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
Winter 2024 Courses
RELI 4850 Seminar in the study of Religion – Hermeneutics: Interpreting texts
Publications
Hindu Iconoclasts: Rammohun Roy, Dayananda Sarasvati, and Nineteenth-Century Polemics Against Idolatry. Wilfrid Laurier University Press, 2004.
“Religion and Art in India: Aesthetic Theories, Iconometric Codes.” Journal of Religion and Culture, Volume 6, (Spring 1992): 123-139.
“Advaita and Imagery: Sankara on Devotional Objects, and as Himself an Object of Devotion.” Arc 23 (1995): 89-105.
“Iconoclast and Idolater: Gandhi on the Worship of Images.” Studies in Religion/Sciences Religieuses 31/3-4 (2002): 373 – 390.