historical circumstance

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Although the world view and ethos of fundamentalism are the same cross-culturally, the cultural content of fundamentalism and the historical circumstances of its emergence differ.
It is likely that the supply of active grandparents is currently particularly high, due to a combination of historical circumstances.
Concepts of identity, whether expressed through kinship relations, citizenship, or religious and national identity, are generated, chosen, and manipulated in specific historical circumstances.
These historical circumstances allow me to postpone dealing with the complex and understudied issue of when new parties and candidates enter the electoral fray.
We need also to consider the historical circumstances that gave rise to each facies.
Museums are now at the centre of a triangle of curators' and visitors' concerns, and their historical circumstances.
In this, it is apparent that biblical apocalypticism - more than simply a convenient rhetorical tool or metaphor - remained a mode of understanding historical circumstances.
The consideration of how ethnicity develops in historical circumstances is fashionable.
Yet, each subject operates within specific social and historical circumstances to which natural theological investigations somehow respond.
The application of these frames of reference, though consistently present, varies depending upon specific historical circumstances.
Particular attention is given to the state and to local social and historical circumstances.
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