Three very good nonfiction titles are set for release this week.

Christian culture has been looked at from almost every possible angle, but Daniel Radish may have found a new one. In his “Rapture Ready! Adventures in the Parallel Universe of Christian Pop Culture,” Radish — who frequently contributes to The New Yorker and used to write for Spy magazine — writes about the 7 billion dollar Christian entertainment subculture. He covers everything from “witness wear” to Christian sex manuals and evangelical amusement parks. He promises to be “keen and compassionate” in his book.

In “McMafia,” British journalist Misha Glenny offers evidence that the greatest success story coming out of the great events of 1989 — fall of the Berlin Wall, collapse of Russia, deregulation of international financial markets — has been the amazing success of global organized crime, from the mafia in Kazakhstan to marijuana dealers in British Columbia.

And for something a bit different, poet and philosopher Susan Griffin offers “Wrestling with the Angel of Democracy,” in which she builds on the idea that Americans are constantly waging an internal war between empirical tendencies (the need for safety and control) with our dedication to democracy (and the ideals of empathy and equality). The timing of the book seems particularly well done, given the debate at the national level during this election year.