Attitudes of Students towards Religious Issues: Do Demographics Characteristics Matter? 1. Introduction Throughout the world, the issue of attitude has gained attention in recent times. Psychologist over the years have tried to unearth the main tenets of attitudes and how they are formed. The issue of attitude is as old as the existence of the first man. This is to say that attitude and 'man' cannot be separated, no matter how hard we try to. Due to this assertion, scientists who are interested in human beings and their society are also interested in the issue of attitude. In fact, earlier writers on human science (Thomas, & Znaniecki, 1918; Allport, 1954) did indicate that the study of human science and behaviour cannot be separated from their attitude. This is evident in the works of Allport and Ross (1968) who indicated that the issue of attitude a unique and essential concept in modern day psychology. However, under the general custom of attitude research, attempts to explain discriminatory behaviours have typically referred to attitudes, stereotypes, prejudice and ethnocentrism (Fazio, & Olson, 2003). The concept attitude has become and elusive term. In more recent times, current social psychologists and scholars in the field of human behaviour have propounded some definitions of the concept of attitude. Lord (1997) was interested in Frankfort-Nachmias' (1992) definition of attitude which was "mental or neural state of readiness represented by cognition, feelings and behaviour; organized through experience, deliberate learning and heredity. This exerts a directive or a dynamic influence upon an individual's response to all objects and situations with which it is related" (p. 241). Based on this, he described attitude as having three main components: the cognitive component; the feeling or affective component and the actions or behavioural component. For him, the three components are interrelated and therefore are always present anytime a person or an individual is said to hold an attitude. Hogg and Vaughan (2005) also defined attitude as "a relatively enduring organisation of beliefs, feelings and behavioural tendencies towards socially significant objects, groups or symbols" (p. 150). The enduring nature of attitude re-surfaces in this modern-day definition too. This is to say that the feelings, beliefs and behavioural tendencies that people exhibit which we term as attitude are mostly permanent and unchanging. This is not to say that attitudes formed cannot change, it can as we would see in forthcoming discussions in this chapter. More significantly, they expand the scope that the reactions are directed to, and include socially significant objects, groups and symbols. More recently, Maio, Maio, and Haddock (2010), have posited that attitudes are cognitive (beliefs, thoughts, attributes), affective (feelings, emotions) and behavioural information (past events, experiences) that characterises how people react to situations, people, objects etc. This description relates to that of both Lord (1997) and Hogg an...