Dr. Noel Salmond

Biography

Educated at Upper Canada College, Bishop’s University, and the Nova Scotia College of Art and Design, Noel Salmond obtained an M.A. in History, Philosophy, and Religion from Concordia University in Montreal. He studied Christian theology and Sanskrit at McGill University, where he completed his doctorate in Asian religions in 1999. Additionally, he 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. Salmond has served as a faculty research fellow at the Shastri Indo-Canadian Institute and was a fellow of the Royal Asiatic Society. His research interests encompass the intersection of religion and visual culture, modernist movements, Hinduism, Buddhism, and discourses on the environment in relation to religious theories. He has published works including 'Hindu Iconoclasts: Rammohun Roy, Dayananda Sarasvati, Nineteenth-Century Polemics Idolatry' (Wilfrid Laurier University Press, 2004) and various articles on aesthetics and religious imagery in India.

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