The first NOREMPO workshop was organised remotely on August 23rd, 2021. The workshop focused on a basic issue of utmost importance: how to do empirical research on religion and populism in the present hybrid media environment? The workshop brought together NOREMPO participants who are specialised in qualitative and/or quantitative methods to map existing research, data sets and related methods relevant for the study of religion and populism in the Nordic countries. The workshop focused on the following questions:

• What kind of methodological tools (including both qualitative and quantitative) are the most relevant for identifying populist actors, discourses and their circulations?
  
  
• What kind of knowledge is produced by applying given methods? What are the benefits and/or weaknesses of such knowledge as assessed from previous studies?
  
  
• How can various methods be combined to target weaknesses appearing in previous research on religion and populism?
  
  
• What kind of new ethical and juridical issues become actualised in different methodological and empirical research designs for researching religion and populism