Religions
... org, Judaism plays a more substantial role in Western Civilization than its number of adherents would suggest, because two of the three main universalizing religions, Christianity and Islam, find some of their roots in Judaism. ... All three religions consider Adam to have been the first man and Abraham to be one of his descendants. ... In common with the followers of many Eastern religions, they believe in the transmigration of the soul, that, at death, one’s soul is instantaneously reincarnated; it is reborn into another life. ... There are many different types of religions, they all have something in common and something’s that are different about them. Some religions do not have anything in common and nothing like the other ones.