This one is my favorite: Makes a link between religious manipulation, misogyny of the past and the modern age.
http://www.thegreatcourses.com/tgc/c...l.aspx?cid=893
Terror of History: Mystics, Heretics, and Witches in the Western Tradition
1 The Terror of History
2 Politics, Economy, and Society
3 Religion and Culture
4 Mysticism in the Western Tradition
5 Mysticism in the Twelfth Century
6 Mysticism in the Thirteenth Century
7 Jewish Mysticism
8 Mysticism in Early Modern Europe
9 Heresy and the Millennium
10 The Church Under Attack
11 The Birth of the Inquisition
12 The Millennium in the Sixteenth Century
13 Jewish Millennial Expectations
14 The Mysteries of the Renaissance
15 Hermeticism, Astrology, Alchemy, and Magic
16 The Origins of Witchcraft
17 Religion, Science, and Magic
18 The Witch Craze and Its Historians
19 Fear and the Construction of Satan
20 The Witch Craze and Misogyny
21 The World of Witches
22 The Witches of Loudon
23 The Witches of Essex and Salem
24 The Survival of the Past