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This article explored the ambivalent role of religion in Northern Nigeria’s ethno-religious conflicts in ways that move beyond reductionist interpretations. It aims to offer a nuanced and contextual analysis of how religion simultaneously fuels division and fosters peace and reconciliation. Methodologically, this study adopts a qualitative, literature-based methodology, engaging interdisciplinary scholarly sources on religion in Africa, African theology, peace studies and political theory. Drawing on Scott Appleby’s concept of the ambivalence of the sacred and Gerrie ter Haar’s multidimensional understanding of religion as descriptive and analytical framework, the article conceptualises religion as a holistic and embodied mode of knowing and being. This research revealed that religion in Northern Nigeria is deeply intertwined with identity politics, historical grievances and socio-political structures. It operates both as a catalyst for violence and as a resource for peacebuilding, depending on how it is interpreted, lived and mobilised. The article interrogated colonial legacies, postcolonial state formation and structural inequalities in Nigeria that shape the deployment of religious narratives, actors and institutions.ContributionThe findings of this contribution highlight the need for a transformative, context-sensitive ecclesial engagement that embraces the lived realities of faith communities. Such an approach affirms religion’s capacity to contribute to sustainable peace when grounded in historical consciousness and a hermeneutics of reconciliation. This study contributes to theological and interdisciplinary efforts to reimagine religion’s role in conflict transformation in Northern Nigeria, in particular and Africa, in general.

R. Scott Hawley is Genetics Society of America's 2013 Beadle Award recipient. The award, named for George Beadle, recognizes exemplary service to the community of genetics. Hawley has worked tirelessly to keep the genetics community vibrant and engaged, and he has done so in formal and in informal ways, seen and unseen.

Providing many vibrant details, the authors examine the intrigue surrounding the Dead Sea Scrolls and debunk many of the myths about them, including allegations of the Vatican’s involvement in hiding the texts from scholars, the possibility that they contained earth shattering revelations, and the actual status of the infamous international editorial committee who limited access to the texts. A fascinating account of international relations, religious negotiation, and scholars, Canada’s Big Biblical Bargain reveals another part of the fascinating tale of the Dead Sea Scrolls.

SCOTT Hawley is the 2008 recipient of the Genetics Society of America's Award for Excellence in Education. This honor was established a year ago to recognize \"individuals or groups that have had significant, sustained impact on genetics education at any level, . . . have promoted greater exposure to and deeper understanding of genetics through distinguished teaching or mentoring, development of innovative pedagogical approaches or tools, design of new courses or curricula, national leadership, and/or public engagement and outreach.\"

The editorial office receives a number of edited volumes and other texts that will be of interest to our readership. When these works tend to be less suitable for unified reviews than monographs, we list them here. To introduce these volumes, we include the publication information and tables of contents. The volume selected for this issue is a recently received anthology.

In this Classic Papers feature, we highlight Dr. Robert H. Bartlett's ground-breaking case series from 1977 reporting 28 pediatric and adult patients supported by extracorporeal membrane oxygenation (ECMO). Dr. P. Peal O'Rourke, who conducted early, innovative clinical research on ECMO, provides her perspective on the state of critical care for children in the late 1970s, how this paper and Dr. Bartlett himself influenced it, and difficulties faced in developing ECMO programs in the 1980s. Dr. Bartlett offers answers to questions about how his work on ECMO began, the reaction of the critical care community to the use of ECMO, and how challenges in studying ECMO in clinical trials have been approached.

Over the last fifteen to twenty years, poets writing in Canada have made use of the techniques typically associated with the conceptual writing movement to write poetry that engages with pre-existing text in order to respond to the enduring legacies of the past. These approaches use found language in poetry as a way of symbolically representing the ideologies embodied within those pieces of text. The relationship that this creates between their carefully selected source texts and the poetry those authors create is best understood as hauntological, because it uses literary form to highlight the implicit presence within the present of ideological spectres that might otherwise be thought of as being confined to the past. This connection allows poets like Jordan Abel, M. NourbeSe Philip, Shane Rhodes, and Syd Zolf to use found language conceptual poetry as a formal technique that helps to interrogate and examine the settler-colonial legacies haunting our contemporary existence and to encourage readers to do the same in order to break free from those haunting influences and work towards a different future than those textual records of the settler-colonial archives might prescribe for us. As such, this dissertation argues that, rather than generating an anti-affective, apolitical poetics through a retreat into the conceptual, these poets generate emotionally impactful and activist conceptual poetry that reckons with the unjust past and present in the service of decolonial and anti-racist futures.