ABSTRACT
Spring Harvest is the largest contemporary British annual Bible week', where the ethos is not only symptomatic of a cultural shift in conservative religion, but has been influential in further reshaping, intentionally and unintentionally, the subculture of those who attend. This chapter presents Spring Harvest's archives, interviews with senior contributors, and attendance at the event. Spring Harvest certainly confirms Hunter's thesis that pragmatic and entrepreneurial evangelicals have shifted their ground, in theology and ethics, tending albeit with glacial slowness compared with liberal traditions continually to moderate their convictions. Spring Harvest's range of options in Bible expositions and evening celebrations therefore ostensibly provides nothing more than disparate emphases within a common ethos of evangelical certainties. Just as Hammond demonstrated the priority of autonomy among American churchgoers, inevitably resulting in the reconfiguration of American religion in the late twentieth century, the commodified provision of Spring Harvest elevates individual freedom of choice.
