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Eleanor Margaret Nesbitt
Born1951
Bournemouth, UK
Known forResearch in religious socialisation, Hinduism, Sikhism, Punjab Studies
TitleProfessor
SpouseRam Krishan
Parent(s)Martha Eleanor Nesbitt, William Ralph Nesbitt
Academic background
EducationGirton College, Cambridge
ThesisThe religious lives of Sikh children in Coventry (1995)
Doctoral advisorProfessor Robert Jackson
Influences<W.Hew McLeod, John Bowker, Robert Jackson>
Academic work
DisciplineReligious Studies,
InstitutionsUniversity of Warwick

Eleanor Nesbitt (b.1951) is a British emeritus professor in Education studies at the University of Warwick, and a founding member of the UK's Punjab Research Group and the Journal of Sikh and Punjab Studies as well as coediting Brill's Encyclopedia of Sikhism.[1][2][3]

Early life and education

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Eleanor Nesbitt was born in 1951 to Martha Eleanor Nesbitt and William Ralph Nesbitt.[4][5] She attended Talbot Heath School in Bournemouth before studying classics and theology at Girton College, Cambridge.[4][6][7]

Career

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Nesbitt completed teacher training at Oxford before travelling to India.[4] There, she taught in Nainital from 1974 to 1977.[4][6] After returning to England in 1977 she spent two years teaching in a comprehensive school in Coventry, and subsequently carried out research in Nottingham.[4] She became professor in education studies at the University of Warwick.[6][when?]

Nesbitt published studies on Sikh children in Coventry in 1991, 1997, 1999, 2000, 2004, and 2009.[8] Her 1993 book titled Hindu children in Britain co-authored with Robert Jackson, is considered by several scholars in religious studies, including Dermot Killingley, as important in that field.[9][10][11] In 1998 she conducted a study on British, Asian, and Hindu identity.[12] In 2001 she published her research on what Hindus in the UK believed.[13][14]

In her 2024 book titled Sikh: Two Centuries of Western Women’s Art & Writing, she lists western women who had encounters with Sikhs.[15][16]

Awards and honours

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In 2003 Nesbitt delivered the Swarthmore Lecture, and in 2009 gave the George Richardson lecture.[6][17]

Selected publications

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Books

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  • Listening to Hindus Harper Collins 1990 ISBN 9780044481218 (coauthored with Robert Jackson)
  • Hindu children in Britain. Trentham. 1993. ISBN 978-0-948080-73-9. (Co-authored with Robert Jackson)
  • Guru Nanak. Calgary: Bayeux Arts Incorporated. 1999. ISBN 1-85175-192-0. (Coauthored with Gopinder Kaur)
  • Interfaith Pilgrims Quaker Books 2003 ISBN 0852453477
  • Intercultural Education: Ethnographic and Religious Approaches. Liverpool University Press. 2004. ISBN 978-1-83624-082-2.
  • Sikhism: A Very Short Introduction. Oxford University Press. 2005. ISBN 9780198745570. (2nd edition 2016)
  • Pool of Life: The Autobiography of a Punjabi Agony Aunt. Liverpool University Press. 2014. ISBN 978-1-78284-067-1. (Co-authored with Kailash Puri)
  • Making Nothing Happen: Five Poets Explore Faith and Spirituality Routledge ISBN 9781409455158. (coauthored with Gavin D'Costa, Mark Pryce, Ruth Shelton and Nicola Slee)
  • Sikh: Two Centuries of Western Women's Art and Writing. Kashi House. 2024. ISBN 978-1-911271-20-8.
  • Quaker Quicks: Open to New Light: Quakers and Other Faiths. John Hunt Publishing. 2023. ISBN 978-1-80341-324-2.

Articles

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References

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  1. ^ Burton, Howard; Nesbitt, Eleanor (2021). Exploring the Sikh Tradition: A Conversation with Eleanor Nesbitt. Open Agenda Publishing, Inc. doi:10.2307/j.ctv22jnknv. JSTOR j.ctv22jnknv.
  2. ^ "Professor Eleanor Nesbitt". warwick.ac.uk. Retrieved 22 January 2025.
  3. ^ "Warwick Professor Uncovers the Untold Stories of Women in Sikh History". myScience United Kingdom. 8 October 2024. Retrieved 27 January 2025.
  4. ^ a b c d e Nesbitt, Eleanor (2000). Children's experience of religion: issues arising from ethnographic study of 8 - 13 year olds' perspectives. Alister Hardy Religious Experience Research Centre. ISBN 978-0-906165-35-5.
  5. ^ Nesbitt, Eleonor (1995). "Acknowledgements". The religious lives of Sikh children in Coventry (PDF). University of Warwick. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2 February 2025.
  6. ^ a b c d "Eleanor Nesbitt". Collective Ink Books. Retrieved 25 January 2025.
  7. ^ "Talbot Heath School - A tradition of excellence". Bournemouth Echo. 8 September 2014. Archived from the original on 2 February 2025. Retrieved 29 January 2025.
  8. ^ Singh, Jasjit (2016). "1. Family values: the impact of family background on the religious lives of young British Sikhs". In Jacobsen, Knut A.; Myrvold, Kristina (eds.). Young Sikhs in a Global World: Negotiating Traditions, Identities and Authorities. London: Routledge. p. 15. ISBN 978-1-134-79081-4.
  9. ^ Handbook of Hinduism in Europe (2 vols). BRILL. 2020. p. 714. ISBN 978-90-04-43228-4.
  10. ^ Killingley, Dermot (1 March 1995). "Book Reviews : Hindu Children in Britain by Robert Jackson and Eleanor Nesbitt". South Asia Research. 15 (1): 150–152. doi:10.1177/026272809501500113. ISSN 0262-7280.
  11. ^ Langlaude, Sylvie (2007). "1. Religious children". The Right of the Child to Religious Freedom in International Law. Leiden: Martinus Nijhoff Publishers. pp. 23–25. ISBN 978-90-04-16266-2.
  12. ^ Erricker, Clive (2000). "2. A critical review of religious education". In Erricker, Clive; Erricker, Jane (eds.). Reconstructing Religious, Spiritual and Moral Education. London: Routledge. p. 28. ISBN 0-415-18946-2.
  13. ^ Alberts, Wanda (2012). "2. Current approaches to RE in England". Integrative Religious Education in Europe: A Study-of-Religions Approach. Berlin: Walter de Gruyter. pp. 155–156. ISBN 978-3-11-019661-0.
  14. ^ Jackson, Robert (2007). "Introduction to section 2: religious education and debates about plurality and culture". In Souza, Marian de; Durka, Gloria; Engebretson, Kathleen; Jackson, Robert; McGrady, Andrew (eds.). International Handbook of the Religious, Moral and Spiritual Dimensions in Education. Springer. p. 300. ISBN 978-1-4020-5246-0.
  15. ^ "warwick_professor_uncovers". warwick.ac.uk. Retrieved 27 January 2025.
  16. ^ "New book on encounters between Sikhs and western women". Central England Quakers. 19 September 2024. Retrieved 2 February 2025.
  17. ^ Geaves, Ron (2013). "9. Fieldwork in the study of religion". In Chryssides, George D.; Geaves, Ron (eds.). The Study of Religion: An Introduction to Key Ideas and Methods (2nd ed.). London: Bloomsbury. p. 260. ISBN 978-1-4725-6732-1.
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