James Holt

James Holt or Jim Holt may refer to:

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James Holt (American football)

James Holt (born November 24, 1986 in Altus, Oklahoma) is a former American football linebacker. He was signed by the San Diego Chargers as an undrafted free agent in 2009. He played college football at Kansas.

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James Holt (scholar)

James Holt is a British scholar of Latter-day Saint religion and history and a senior lecturer in religious education at the University of Chester.

Holt has degrees from Manchester Metropolitan University, the University of Chester and the University of Birmingham. He published Religious Education in the Secondary School: An introduction to teaching, learning and the World Religions through Routledge in 2015. In this he outlines his approach to teaching RE. This includes a pedagogy he describes as a 'Kaleidoscopic' approach which draws on existing pedagogies of RE.

He serves on the editorial board of the International Journal of Mormon Studies. In March 2010, Holt was among the presenters at the BYU Studies 50th anniversary symposium. Holt has also done a study specifically considering the LDS experience in Britain's religious education curriculum.

Holt and his wife Ruth, who married in 1995, are the parents of four children.

Holt served as a missionary for The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS Church) in the Scotland Edinburgh Mission (1991–93). During this time, his mission presidents were Joseph Fielding McConkie and Ian D. Swanney.