Christianity of the Global South

A fascinating thought from a fascinating piece:

...the demographic transition in Catholicism from the West to the Southern hemisphere is producing a new generation of leaders from Africa, Asia and Latin America, where Judaism generally does not have a large sociological footprint. This Southern cohort didn't live through the Holocaust, and they generally don't feel historical responsibility for it -- seeing it as a Western, not a Christian, atrocity. Relations with Islam, however, are a front-burner priority, since many of these southern Catholics live cheek by jowl with large Muslim communities...

The old models of "Christianity as a means of Western imperialism" are dead--and in fact were dead before they were thought up, because the Christian communities of the Middle East predated any such hints of imperialism.  When I am studying side by side with African missionaries sent to evangelize the pagan West, I find it hard to take seriously certain myopic forms of historical/cultural analysis which remain blind to the reality of a growing, determinedly orthodox Third World Church which follows Vatican II within the hermeneutic of continuity and at the same time does a lot of work towards inculturation and is incredibly irritated at times by the Western neuroses of modernity that some of the ailing religious orders keep trying to export.