Eleanor Margaret Nesbitt | |
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Born | 1951 (age 73–74) Bournemouth, UK |
Known for | Research in religious socialisation, Hinduism, Sikhism, Punjab Studies |
Title | Professor |
Spouse | Ram Krishan |
Parent(s) | Martha Eleanor Nesbitt, William Ralph Nesbitt |
Academic background | |
Education | Girton College, Cambridge |
Thesis | The religious lives of Sikh children in Coventry (1995) |
Doctoral advisor | Professor Robert Jackson |
Influences | W.H. McLeod, John Bowker, Robert Jackson |
Academic work | |
Discipline | Religious Studies |
Institutions | University of Warwick |
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]
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]
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]
In 2003 Nesbitt delivered the Swarthmore Lecture,and in 2009 gave the George Richardson lecture. [6] [17]
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.