The word 'reincarnation' is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it when you want to refer to the belief that the soul of a deceased person, animal, or plant is reborn in another body or form. For example: "Many followers of Hinduism and Buddhism believe in the concept of reincarnation."
In The Reincarnation of Saint Orlan, a project that started in 1990, the French artist Orlan has altered herself with a series of operations.
Also blurring genres to great effect were Marcel Theroux's Strange Bodies (Faber), a speculative page-turner that takes in everything from Dr Johnson to reincarnation, and Javier Marías's The Infatuations (Hamish Hamilton), a metaphysical murder mystery.
This little madam's like the reincarnation of Joan Rivers, only with a Mancunian accent.
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Steiner was big on reincarnation.
However, unlike most Muslims, they accept reincarnation.
But Mr Netanyahu may have to reach out to parties on the centre and left if he is to avoid teaming up with the punchy Mr Bennett.The new outfit is a brash reincarnation of the venerable but moribund National Religious Party.
The state should not tell people whether they can wear headscarves, let alone ban "unauthorised" reincarnation (as China did recently in Tibet).
More remarkably, the military chiefs who deposed the government of Thaksin Shinawatra in a coup in 2006 seemed to accept the public's decision to overrule the coup and restore Mr Thaksin's allies to power in the form of the People's Power Party PPPP), a reincarnation of his disbanded Thai Rak Thai (TRT .Mr Thaksin, too, has struck a conciliatory note.
Soon, thanks to Ireland's approval last weekend of the Nice treaty, its next reincarnation will appear.In December, the European Union is due to finish negotiations with ten hopeful members which, save Cyprus and Malta, were all former satellite states of the Soviet Union.
King Jigme Singye Wangchuk, a reincarnation of a Buddhist saint, has been quietly working on a constitution for his Himalayan kingdom since he first devolved power to an elected government in 1998.
