Theologist, communicologist, translator, publicist.
Dr. Ivica Šola completed theology at the Catholic Faculty of Theology in Zagreb in 1994 and he got his master’s degree at the Pontifical Lateran University in Rome in 1998 (Alphonsian Academy). He got his PhD at the Catholic Faculty of Theology in Zagreb in 2012. He teaches courses from ethics, religion, culture and media theory at the Catholic Faculty of Theology in Đakovo (social ethics, bioethics), the Institute for Theological Culture in Osijek (Phenomenology of Religion) and Croatian Studies (publicisity). From 2010 to 2015, he was head of the Department of Media Culture at the Department of Culturology at the University of Josip Juraj Strossmayer in Osijek. Areas of his scientific interest are the marginal questions of philosophy, theology, religion, culture, media and society. He is associate in many newspapers in Croatia and abroad. He is a long-time journalist of the daily newspaper “Glas Slavonija” (from 2003 to 2007 Deputy Editor-in-Chief and Special Issue Editor; from 2008 to 2011 Chairman of the Supervisory Board). Since 2001 he is the columnist of Eastern Slavonian „Glas Slavonije“ and „Večernji list“ and today also columnist of „Slobodna Dalmacija“ and the occasional commentator of the „Globus“ magazine and Rijeka’s local newspapers „Novi List“. He is an external associate of the Croatian Television on Press Club projects („Otvoreno“) and special broadcasts related to religious content and social phenomens („Reporteri“). He is also engaged in publicity and translating. Currently he is a docent at the Department of Culturology at the Faculty of Philosophy in Osijek.