Secession (disambiguation)

Secession is the act of withdrawing from an organization, union, or political entity.

Secession may also refer to:

Political secession

 * Liberal Union, also called Secession, a leftist break-away from the National Liberal Party in the German Empire
 * Secession in the United States
 * Killington, Vermont, secession movement, current court battle over the voted defection of a Vermont town to New Hampshire
 * Missouri secession, a controversy over the double secession status of Missouri in the American Civil War era
 * Ordinance of Secession, an ordinance ratified by the seceding states that was one of the causes of the American Civil War
 * Secession in New York, movements to support the secession of New York City from the state or union
 * Secession of Quebec (disambiguation), articles about the possible secession of Quebec from Canada
 * Secessionism in Western Australia, a movement for political independence
 * Urban secession, a movement for the quasi-secession of a city

Social secession

 * 1857 Secession, secession from the Reformed Church in America in 1857 which led to the formation of the Christian Reformed Church in North America
 * Aventine Secession (disambiguation), secessions of the Aventine district in Rome
 * First Secession, from the Church of Scotland in 1733
 * Secessio plebis, the original secessions of ancient Rome
 * Secession of 1834 or Afscheiding, secession from the Dutch Reformed Church in 1834 which led to the formation of the Christelijke Gereformeerde Kerken

Arts movements

 * Secession (art), the series of secession movements in art during the late 19th and early 20th century, including:
 * Berlin Secession, the 1898 break from the Association of Berlin Artists
 * Sonderbund westdeutscher Kunstfreunde und Künstler, the Düsseldorf secession of 1909
 * Vienna Secession, the 1897 secession that led to the Austrian branch of Art Nouveau
 * Photo-Secession, a movement that promoted photography as a fine art

Other uses in arts, entertainment, and media

 * Secession (band), a 1980s Scottish synthpop band
 * Secession (magazine), a 1920s American expatriate literary magazine
 * Secession, a collaboration album between Starringo & Aha Gazelle
 * "Secession" (Succession), an episode of the television series Succession