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Eleanor Nesbitt

British Punjabi scholar From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

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Eleanor Nesbitt (born 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]

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Early life and education

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

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 and 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 published an article on British, Asian, and Hindu identity.[12] In 2001 she published her research on what Hindus in the UK believed.[13][14]

Her 2024 book, titled Sikh: Two Centuries of Western Women's Art & Writing, documents Sikh history through western women's encounters with Sikhs and their culture.[15][16]

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Awards and honours

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

Selected publications

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Books

  • 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.
  • Nesbitt, Eleanor (2005). Sikhism: A Very Short Introduction. Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/actrade/9780198745570.001.0001. 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

Nesbitt, Eleanor, (2015) '"The Fools Argue about Flesh and Meat" Sikhism and Vegetarianism', Religions of South Asia, 9, 1, 81-101.

Chapters in edited volumes '"Deg tegh fateh!" Metal as Material and Metaphor in Sikh Tradition' in Fabrizio Ferrari and Thomas Dahnhardt (eds) Soulless Matter, Seats of Energy - Metals, Gems and Minerals in South Asian Traditions, London: Equinox, 174-200, 2016.

'Sikhism in Mainland Europe' in Pashaura Singh and Arvind-Pal Singh Mandair (eds) The Sikh World, London: Routledge, 160-170, 2023.

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