Recognizing Diverse Views: Controversial Narration of Kiai Ibrahim Tunggul Wulung’s Religious Humanism in a Historical Learning

An epistemology is a theory of the nature of knowledge and a way of justifying knowledge claims. Humanism is a part of critical thinking which come from human changing form of dignity, role, the idea of enlighment, and the responsibility of humanity. In the javanese christianity context, Kiai Ibrahim Tunggul Wulung teaches the importance appointed human dignity. He inherits some life lesson which are summarizes in own perspective of Christiany and javanese culture on Tegalombo comunity. Tunggul Wulung combines the wisdom of javanese culture and christianity in accordance of the condition and the requirement of the humanitarian society. This work is an attemp to analyze Tunggul Wulung mission method in the context of Indonesia, it is perhaps more to make explicit the lack of a common methodology, formulate one true to at least one understanding of what “critical” means, and encourage debate, and discussion on the issue. Critical ethnography was used in this research as an approach to understand the diversity of views and epistemological dimension of students’ knowledge in historical learning. The subjects of research were the postgraduate students of History Education Department at the University of Negeri Yogyakarta with the narration of Tunggul Wulung as their learning material. The research result shows the process of recognition in which the students tried to understand the diverse perspective through interaction in the classroom. The students also tried to negotiate the new historical knowledge with psychological process. The research highlights that Tunggul Wulung’s achievment can be aprreciated by the present generation, and they will negotiated epistemology in a history classroom which different some point of views during the