What's the difference between resurrection and reincarnation? I'm pretty sure resurrection is vastly different from reincarnation, even though both describe living again.

So what is the difference between them? And is one doctrine more typical of Christian belief than another? Are there Christian religions that believe them to be similar or the same thing?
Reincarnation involves living again, but having another life in a new body, as a new person/being.

On this one, Wikipedia is as good a source as any.


  Reincarnation is the religious or philosophical concept that the soul
  or spirit, after biological death, begins a new life in a new body
  that may be human, animal or spiritual depending on the moral quality
  of the previous life's actions. This doctrine is a central tenet of
  the Indian religions.1 It is also a common belief of various ancient
  and modern religions such as Spiritism, Theosophy, and Eckankar and is
  found in many tribal societies around the world, in places such as
  Siberia, West Africa, North America, and Australia.2


Resurrection involves living again in your own body (or perhaps a glorified version of it), as yourself.

And again with the Wikipedia definition.


  Resurrection (anglicized from Latin resurrectio) is the concept of a
  living being coming back to life after death. It is distinguished from
  resuscitation (see below), and is a religious concept used in two
  distinct respects: a belief in the resurrection of individual souls
  that is current and ongoing (Christian idealism, realized
  eschatology), or else a belief in a singular "Resurrection of the
  Dead" event at the end of the world. The Resurrection of the Dead is a
  standard eschatological belief in the Abrahamic religions. In a number
  of ancient religions, a life-death-rebirth deity is a deity which dies
  and resurrects. The death and resurrection of Jesus is the central
  focus of Christianity.