Eleanor Nesbitt, Author at Pippa Rann Books & Media

Eleanor Nesbitt

Dr. Eleanor Nesbitt’s Ph.D. is from Cambridge University, and she has taught in India and the UK. She writes about the lived experience of religion - mainly in Sikh, Hindu and Christian communities, and about inter-faith encounter.

Her publications include:

- Interfaith Pilgrims (Quaker Books 2003),
- Intercultural Education: Ethnographic and Religious Approaches (Sussex Academic Press 2004)
- Sikhism A Very Short Introduction (Oxford University Press 2nd edn 2016)
- Open to New Light: Quakers and Other Faiths (Collective Ink 2023)
- Sikh: Two Centuries of Western Women's Art and Writing (Kashi House 2024).

An emeritus professor in the University of Warwick, she is the co-editor of Brill's Encyclopedia of Sikhism.

She has won two lifetime achievement awards for her contribution to Sikh and Punjab Studies.

Quakers, Muslims, Muslim Quakers, and Quaker Muslims

Book Reviews, Columns / Eleanor Nesbitt

Professor Eleanor Nesbitt’s book, Quaker Quicks — Open to New Light (published by Christian Alternative Books) provides an accessible and deeply informed account of Quakers engaged in interfaith activity over the last three and a half centuries. The following chapter (Chapter 4), which Professor Nesbitt has kindly allowed us to include at this site in […]

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A reflection on my book, “Open to New Light”

Open to New Light: Quakers and Other Faiths Eleanor Nesbitt (Collective Ink, 2023) Researching this book brought me one surprise after another. I hadn’t previously known that George Fox, the founder of what is now the Religious Society of Friends (Quakers), was reading the Qur’an (an English translation of a French translation) in the 1600s.