:James Bratt

{{Short description|American historian (born 1949)}}

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| birth_name = James Donald Bratt

| birth_date = {{birth year and age|1949}}

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| nationality = American

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| alma_mater = {{ubl | Calvin College | Yale University}}

| thesis_title = Dutch Calvinism in Modern America

| thesis_year = 1978

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| doctoral_advisor = Sydney E. Ahlstrom

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| discipline = History

| sub_discipline = {{hlist | American religious history | colonial American history | intellectual history}}

| workplaces = Calvin College

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| main_interests = {{hlist | Abraham Kuyper | Second Great Awakening}}

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James Donald Bratt (born 1949) is a scholar of Abraham Kuyper, and is an emeritus professor at Calvin College.[http://www.calvin.edu/academic/history/faculty/bratt/ Calvin College - History - Faculty - James D. Bratt]

An alumnus of Calvin, Bratt received his Doctor of Philosophy degree from Yale University after writing his dissertation, Dutch Calvinism in Modern America. He has published a biography of Kuyper in 2013. His other areas of specialty include colonial American history, and American intellectual and religious history.